English and Czech children's literature: a contrastive corpus-driven phraseological approach

Abstract

The paper explores the recurrent linguistic patterns in English and Czech children's narrative fiction and their textual functions. It combines contrastive phraseological research with corpus-driven methods.

The analysis focuses on the domains of time, space and body language.

Keywords

• children’s fiction
• n-grams
• time
• space
• body language
• phraseology