@article{oai:meilib.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000483,
 author = {Sandberg, Johanna},
 journal = {比較文化, Comparative culture, the journal of Miyazaki International College},
 month = {},
 note = {This paper applies corpus-based methods to a stylistic analysis of the first two novels of 
one of Britain’s foremost contemporary writers, Hilary Mantel. The hypothesis tested is 
that the two novels, Every Day Is Mother’s Day (1985) and its sequel, Vacant 
Possession (1986), express a particularly negative attitude towards children. The 
concordance program Antconc is used to calculate frequencies, plot distributions, and 
identify collocations, and the British National Corpus (BNC) is used as a reference 
corpus. The results show that the lemmas MOTHER, MUM, FATHER, DAD, CHILD, BOY 
and BABY occur more frequently in the two novels than in the BNC or, with the 
exception of FATHER and BOY, in the BNC fiction subcorpus, and that they are 
distributed evenly throughout the texts. The study also shows that most adjective 
collocates pre-modifying CHILD in the novels are either neutral or have negative 
connotations, while most of the top 50 pre-modifying adjective collocates in the BNC 
fiction subcorpus are neutral or positive.},
 pages = {30--52},
 title = {A Corpus-Based Study of Attitudes towards Children in Hilary},
 volume = {18},
 year = {2013}
}