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Abstract
The present study aims at offering an integrated approach for qualitative and quantitative representation of the serial killers, profilers/ investigators and victims in the novels of serial killers, or crime fiction genre in general. The study has manipulated the quantitative data given by corpus linguistic tools such as concordance lines and collocates. Then, these results have been amalgamated with the qualitative analysis using the linguistic toolkit offered by Jeffries` Critical Stylistics approach. Therefore, this study has attempted to investigate the characterization and the main features of the serial killers, profilers/ detectives, and victims in six selected novels. The selected novels are the product of three distinguished crime fiction novelists: Thomas Harris’s The Red Dragon (1981), The Silence of the Lambs (1988), and Hannibal (1999); James Patterson`s Along Came a Spider (1993), and Kiss the Girls (1997), and Patricia Cornwell`s Postmortem (1991). In the light of the main findings of this exploration, the study has concluded with an integrated approach (CCS) Critical Corpus Stylistics. The CCS approach proved successful in representing the main distinguishing features of serial killers, profilers and victims. The study indicates that there are set of patterns of serial killers noticed through the novels. Similarly, the study has manifested that there are a set of characteristics entailing qualified profilers/ detectives. In addition, the representation of victims is stereotyped-based; there are no particular borders distinguishing one victim from the other.