Reader response research in stylistics

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

the implied reader in 18th century literary criticism

this thesis is going to delineate the concept of the reader as implied in 18th century literary theory; based on the study of the major reader oriented elements of criticism of the age-taste, the sublime, and aesthetic pleasure-its aim is to explain what sott of reader is implied and what kind of response on the part of the reader is proposed in 18th century english literary theory and aestheti...

Applications of a microplate reader in yeast physiology research.

Microplate readers have been useful assistants of researchers for several decades. This work is focused on the applications of a simple absorbance microplate reader in yeast physiology research, and its advantages and limitations in comparison with alternative methods are discussed. The two main procedures involved are measuring growth curves and monitoring the pH changes of medium using two di...