Linguistic Deviation in Literary Style

A Hybrid Statistical-Linguistic Model of Style Shifting in Literary Translation

1 . The present paper presents an original interdisciplinary study of style-shifting in literary translation, which draws upon methodologies and techniques from corpus stylistics and computational stylometry, and relevant sociolinguistic theories of style variation. Such an innovative approach to the literary translator’s idiosyncratic use of language sets out to address one of the most difficu...

Linguistic Style Matching 3 Linguistic Style Matching and Negotiation

This research examined the relationship between Linguistic Style Matching—the degree to which negotiators coordinate their word use—and negotiation outcome. Nine hostage negotiations were divided into 6 time stages and the dialogue of police negotiators and hostage takers analyzed across 18 linguistic categories. Correlational analyses showed that successful negotiations were associated with hi...

Literary Philosophy: The Anatomy of Philosophical Style

Linguistic Style Accommodation in Disagreements

We investigate style accommodation in online discussions, in particular its interplay with content agreement and disagreement. Using a new model for measuring style accommodation, we find that speakers coordinate on style more noticeably if they disagree than if they agree, especially if they want to establish rapport and possibly persuade their interlocutors.

Linguistic Features Of Italian Blogs: Literary Language

Preliminary surveys show that the lan­ guage of blogs is not restricted to the more informal levels of expression. In­ stead blogs may include many kinds of written language: from simple personal notes to literary prose or poetry. The pa­ per presents a sample of Italian blogs and comments on the results of the search of literary forms in two Web corpora using search engine queries.