Saturnin Twice in Two Different Ways: A Corpus Analysis of the Imitation of Authorial Style from the Perspective of Phraseology

The identification of authorship and the imitation of authorial style represent a significant area of modern linguistics, combining traditional literary analysis with advanced corpus-based methods. This thesis focuses on a specific question: to what extent can authorial style be successfully imitated through phraseologi- cal means? The subject of this research are two literary works: the original novel Sat- urnin by Zdeněk Jirotka and its sequels Saturnin se vrací and Saturnin zasahuje by Miroslav Macek, who deliberately attempts to imitate the style of the origi- nal. The main aim of this thesis is to compare the phraseological lexicon of both works and to determine whether the same phrasemes are used with comparable frequency. The analysis is based on corpus methods, with emphasis on phrase- ological annotation carried out according to the standards of the Czech National Corpus. The outcome of this research is the assessment of the extent to which the sequels authentically reflect the linguistic means of the original, as well as the identification of possible deviations indicating a different approach to text cre- ation. This study thus contributes to a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in imitating authorial style in literature through phrasemes and offers a methodological...