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title = "Cliche Expressions in Literary and Genre Novels",
author = "van Cranenburgh, Andreas",
editor = "Alex, Beatrice and
Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania and
Feldman, Anna and
Kazantseva, Anna and
Reiter, Nils and
Szpakowicz, Stan",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Joint {SIGHUM} Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature",
month = aug,
year = "2018",
address = "Santa Fe, New Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-4504",
pages = "34--43",
abstract = "Should writers {``}avoid clich{\'e}s like the plague{''}? Clich{\'e}s are said to be a prominent characteristic of {``}low brow{''} literature, and conversely, a negative marker of {``}high brow{''} literature. Clich{\'e}s may concern the storyline, the characters, or the style of writing. We focus on clich{\'e} expressions, ready-made stock phrases which can be taken as a sign of uncreative writing. We present a corpus study in which we examine to what extent clich{\'e} expressions can be attested in a corpus of various kinds of contemporary fiction, based on a large, curated lexicon of clich{\'e} expressions. The results show to what extent the negative view on clich{\'e}s is supported by data: we find a significant negative correlation of -0.48 between clich{\'e} density and literary ratings of texts. We also investigate interactions with genre and characterize the language of clich{\'e}s with several basic textual features. Code used for this paper is available at \url{https://github.com/andreasvc/litcliches/}",
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%T Cliche Expressions in Literary and Genre Novels
%A van Cranenburgh, Andreas
%Y Alex, Beatrice
%Y Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania
%Y Feldman, Anna
%Y Kazantseva, Anna
%Y Reiter, Nils
%Y Szpakowicz, Stan
%S Proceedings of the Second Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
%D 2018
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Santa Fe, New Mexico
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%X Should writers “avoid clichés like the plague”? Clichés are said to be a prominent characteristic of “low brow” literature, and conversely, a negative marker of “high brow” literature. Clichés may concern the storyline, the characters, or the style of writing. We focus on cliché expressions, ready-made stock phrases which can be taken as a sign of uncreative writing. We present a corpus study in which we examine to what extent cliché expressions can be attested in a corpus of various kinds of contemporary fiction, based on a large, curated lexicon of cliché expressions. The results show to what extent the negative view on clichés is supported by data: we find a significant negative correlation of -0.48 between cliché density and literary ratings of texts. We also investigate interactions with genre and characterize the language of clichés with several basic textual features. Code used for this paper is available at https://github.com/andreasvc/litcliches/
%U https://aclanthology.org/W18-4504
%P 34-43
Markdown (Informal)
[Cliche Expressions in Literary and Genre Novels](https://aclanthology.org/W18-4504) (van Cranenburgh, LaTeCH 2018)
ACL
- Andreas van Cranenburgh. 2018. Cliche Expressions in Literary and Genre Novels. In Proceedings of the Second Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, pages 34–43, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.