Technology for Determining the Colour Characteristics of the Text of a Fiction Work (on the Material of the German Language)

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A technology for determining the colour characteristics of a fiction work based on the corpus approach, which involves the use of automatized analysis, is described. The original texts of Franz Kafka’s novels “The Castle”, “The Trial” and “America” are used as research material. It is concluded that the shown technology gives an accurate idea of the general “colour” of the text, if the colour data bank for a particular fiction work is sufficiently complete.

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Alexey Ivanovich Gorozhanov

Moscow State Linguistic University

Author for correspondence.
Email: agorozhanov@linguanet.ru

Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor, Professor in the Department of German Language Grammar and History, Faculty for German Language

Russian Federation

Valentina Anatolievna Shevtsova

Minsk State Linguistic University

Email: schewzowa_w@mail.ru

PhD (Philology), Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty for German Language

Belarus

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