Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1116515 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2013 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

The aim of the experimental work is statistical analysis of the novels by observing the frequency of letters, words, and n-grams of four books: two books by Dino Buzzati a) The Tartar steppe (Il deserto dei Tartari) and b) The Colomber (Il colombre); and two books by Oscar Wilde a) The portrait of Dorian Gray and b) The ballad of Reading Gaol. Books have been received in the original versions written by its authors and their respective English – Italian translations and vice versa. For statistical analysis are used two programs: Firstly, it is a program built by us which analyzes the text in English and Italian and at the end gives the frequency of each of the letters; Secondly, it is used antconc, a concordance and n-grams program. Such analysis can lead us to the identification of any logical fact or not (a-logical) fact between connections that might have the basic material and its translation, in Literature knowledge and inter cultural communication; which is a fundamental key of today's society relationships.

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