A Statistical Profile of Color Terms in Irving Stone’s Biographical Novel about Vincent Van Gogh: a Corpus-Based Approach
The paper presents the use of corpus-based methods to investigate color terms in fiction. On the basis of Irving Stone’s biographical novel about the post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life (1934), which established the genre of fictionalized biographies, a comprehensive analysis of color terms has been carried out, and a statistical profile of color terms has been developed.