Stylistic Devices in Marriage Vows

A Stylistic Approach to Translation: Figurative language devices in the Persian renderings of Alcott's Little Women

The present study aimed firstly at investigating the impact of translators' style on figurative language translation from English into Persian. Secondly, it intended to find which strategies were most frequently adopted by Persian translators to translate figures of speech into Persian. Lastly, the study sought to check the extent of transference of figurative features of literary texts in Engl...

A Stylistic Approach to Translation: Figurative language devices in the Persian renderings of Alcott's Little Women

The present study aimed firstly at investigating the impact of translators' style on figurative language translation from English into Persian. Secondly, it intended to find which strategies were most frequently adopted by Persian translators to translate figures of speech into Persian. Lastly, the study sought to check the extent of transference of figurative features of literary texts in Engl...

Stylistic Experiments in Informationretrieval

A discussion on various experiments to utilize stylistic variation among texts for information retrieval purposes. 1. Stylistics Texts vary in many ways. Authors make choices when they write a text: they decide how to organize the material they have planned to introduce; they make choices between synonyms and syntactic constructions; they choose an intended audience for the text. Authors will m...

Subjectivity in Stylistic Assessment

Stylistic Variation in Multilingual Instructions

Instructional texts have been the object of many studies recently, motivated by the increased need to produce manuals (especially multilingual manuals) coupled with the cost of translators and technical writers. Because these studies concentrate on aspects other than the linguistic realisation of instructions – for example, the integration of text and graphics – they all generate a sequence of ...