PHASEOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE AS A STYLISTIC METHOD

Rank Distance as a Stylistic Similarity

In this paper we propose a new distance function (rank distance) designed to reflect stylistic similarity between texts. To assess the ability of this distance measure to capture stylistic similarity between texts, we tested it in two different machine learning settings: clustering and binary classification.

Stylistic fronting as remnant movement

This paper presents a novel analysis of the phenomenon of stylistic fronting in Icelandic. It is argued that stylistic fronting is not a head-movement operation, but rather phrasal movement to subject position. In many cases, however, independent factors determine evacuation of the phrase prior to raising, i.e. the fronted phrase can be a remnant. It is shown that this approach can account for ...

Stylistic Analysis of a Poetic Text: A Case from Persian

Poetic analysis involves the explication of a poem by focusing on the process of semiosis in it. Through semiosis linguistic meaning is transformed into stylistic meaning. An examination of semiosis brings us to look at the hypersemanticized poetic structures which are none other than the style features of a poem. Since style functions in a literary text by conveying meanings other than literal...

a stylistic analysis of the will of imam ali (as)

stylistics as a new method of text analysis explores the overall structure of texts. an author’s use of repetition as well as other linguistic and literary elements is among the most prominent stylistic features intended to create an effective expression. since the nahj al-balaghah is one of the most important religious books, and has a great literary value, it has always attracted the attentio...

STylISTIC SaNdCaSTlES: RhETORICal FIGuRES aS COmPOSITION’S BuCKET aNd SPadE