Abstract

VELEZ, JORGE IVÁN  and  MARMOLEJO-RAMOS, FERNANDO. The Secrets of One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Stylometric Approach for Psycholinguistic Research. Rev. colomb. psicol. [online]. 2016, vol.25, n.2, pp.265-288. ISSN 0121-5469.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcp.v25n2.50742.

According to stylistics and literary criticism, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez is characterized by constant allusion to historical characters and a neutral tone in the narration of events. In this article, stylometric methods are used to support these statements and provide new insights into the novel. These methods include, among others, word and phrase count, the construction of consensus trees, the calculation of the polarity of the sentences, and indexes to quantify the complexity and the level of concreteness of the text. Results show the tendency of the author to frequently employ abstract words and words referring to objects with which one can interact physically, to produce the linguistic effect of magical realism. Given the importance of the findings, the article poses some ideas about the implications that the methodology may have for psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology.

Keywords : Stylometry; magic realism; psycho-narratology; cognitive psychology; embodied cognition.

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