A Measured Stylistic Study of the Lexical Styles of Yu Hua’s and Mo Yan’s Long Stories

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10.2991/978-2-38476-214-9_91How to use a DOI?

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Yu Hua; Mo Yan; Measurement Stylistics; Vocabulary Style

Abstract

This paper takes the twelve long novels of Yu Hua and Mo Yan as the research objects, and analyses the differences in the writing styles of the two writers from the perspectives of vocabulary length, vocabulary richness, special word classes and special lexical items, and so on. It is learnt that Mo Yan’s works are more complex in language, richer in vocabulary, broader in text creation, and more intuitive and strong in emotional expression, while Yu Hua’s works are simpler and easier to understand, less rich in vocabulary, less broad in text creation, and more objective and implicit in emotional expression. In addition, Mo Yan’s style of writing is more stable than Yu Hua’s.

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AU  - Haoxian Bai
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TI  - A Measured Stylistic Study of the Lexical Styles of Yu Hua’s and Mo Yan’s Long Stories
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2023)
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