Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ÇANKAYA UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (CUJHSS), cilt.18, sa.2, ss.250-264, 2024 (Hakemli Dergi)
Drawing on corpus stylistics techniques, we analysed Nights of Plague and A Journal of the Plague
Year by comparatively uncovering the keywords, clusters, and thematic signals by dint of Sketch
Engine as an innovative corpus tool. Analysing each novel centering around “plague, political
issues, fear, and panic in England and Minger Island”, the study attempted to explore how Defoe
and Pamuk represent the plague through characters and events. Top-down and bottom-up
approaches followed statistical and contextual patterns and associations based on the analysis of
“perception of disease.” Log-likelihood and frequency contributed to the interpretation of the
data. The main theme of “plague” affects both the characters and events and is explored in terms
of the impact of disease, highlighting similarities and differences in commonly used lexical
patterns. This analysis brings a recent global perspective to the concept of “plague” by examining
its devastating effects.