Pragmatization of stylistics

Pragmatization of Information Systems

Pragmatization of information systems means to climb the semiotic ladder from the syntactic and semantic levels, and take the pragmatic use of language as a starting point for understanding information and information systems as social phenomena. This thesis concerns theory and method for conceiving and developing information systems based on such an understanding. We propose an action theory o...

Pragmatization Of Conceptual Modelling

The aim of this paper is to show how speech act theory can be used in systems development as a theoretical foundation for conceptual modelling. With the traditional notion of the conceptual model as an image of reality, the predominant modelling problem is to analyse how the external reality should be mapped into, and represented in, the system in a ‘true’ way. In contrast to this, we maintain ...

Stylistics: Corpus Approaches

Stylistics, which may be defined as the study of the language of literature, makes use of various tools of linguistic analysis. Corpus linguistics is opening up new vistas for the study of language, and there are interesting similarities in the approaches of stylistics and corpus linguistics. Stylistics is a field of empirical inquiry, in which the insights and techniques of linguistic theory a...

Towards an integrated corpus stylistics

Over recent years, the use of corpora in stylistic analysis has grown in popularity. However, questions still remain over the remit of corpus stylistics, its distinction from corpus linguistics generally and its capacity to explain complex stylistic effects. This article argues in favour of an integrated corpus stylistics; that is, an approach to corpus stylistics that integrates it with other ...

Stylistics in Customer Reviews of Cultural Objects