Project draft proposal

Students name: John Doe

Title:
Bernard Shaw: A case study of style in fiction and drama.
Research question(s):

Are Shaws styles identical when writing fiction and plays?

If they are different, what are the most outstanding differences?
Did Shaws style change with time?

Objectives:

To determine whether there are remarkable differences between

Shaws styles in drama and fiction or not.
To determine whether Shaws style underwent essential changes
along his life.
To get further insight into measurable differences in style across
genres.

Hypotheses:

Shaw had a unique style in his writings (null).

Stylometric methods are enough for profiling differences across
registers.

Methodology:

Two plays (Mrs. Warren's Profession and Pygmalion), a novel (Love

Among the Artists) and several short stories (from The Adventures of
the Black Girl in Her Search for God and Some Lesser Tales) will be
stylistically analysed and compared.
The texts will be collected, pre-processed and saved in text format.
They will be analysed using Textalyser and other on-line stylometry
tools.
Results will be tabulated in sqlite and Access.
Quantitative data will be processed and summarised using Excel.