The lexical analysis of two works by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald

The scientific field of computational linguistics can significantly contribute to the analysis literary texts from a variety perspectives, including educational ones. purpose present study is investigate and analyze with help devices, special focus on difficulty level vocabulary items, general profile regarding frequency occurrence, sentence length selected texts, which research questions are based. Ernest Hemingway’s work Big Two-Hearted River – Part I., F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby, were analyzed. It hypothesized, based previous research, that words used in prose will fall into lower reading range than Fitzgerald’s, style generally be simpler terms syntactic structures length. Their writings analyzed tools. Comparing text profiles Hemingway Fitzgerald for difficulty, it concluded their not different. Yet, contains longer more elaborate sentences. Language technology appliances may critical, detailed effective works, contributing other benefits, language teaching.