Language and Style in Dante. Seven Essays

Language style matching in writing: synchrony in essays, correspondence, and poetry.

Each relationship has its own personality. Almost immediately after a social interaction begins, verbal and nonverbal behaviors become synchronized. Even in asocial contexts, individuals tend to produce utterances that match the grammatical structure of sentences they have recently heard or read. Three projects explore language style matching (LSM) in everyday writing tasks and professional wri...

Essays in English Language and Literature

Engendering a Professional Woman Playwright : Aphra Behn’s Adaptation Strategies ....................................................................Riwako Kaji Ghosts and Money in Great Expectations ..........................................................Takashi Nakamura The Changing Distance between Jude and Sue: Cousinship and Hardy in Jude the Obscure ........................................

German Philosophy: Language and Style

The remarks which follow are intended to address a certain apparent asymmetry as between German and Anglo-Saxon philosophy. Put most simply, it is clear to every philosopher moving backwards and forwards between the two languages that the translation of an Anglo-Saxophone philosophical text into German is in general a much easier task than is the translation of a German philosophical text into ...

Logos and Language Essays in Honour of Julius Moravcsik edited

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...