Where is Scotland on the map of literary studies? This is a timely question for scholars to address. Recently, for example, some Scottish literature scholars have written a petition to the Modern Language Association to expand its current Scottish Literature Discussion Group into a Division on Scottish Literature at the MLA. The petition states that recent Scottish literary scholarship has " (a...

the present paper is a research into the process of translating literary types. to make this feasible, first, six, presuppositions widely accepted by translation scholars are discussed, together with the techniquets) of achieving adequate translation equivalent in translating automatic language. then, with regard to the poetic function of language, as suggested by jakobson, 'foregrounding&...

This study examines how reading habits affect people’s sensitivity to word distributions in literary and non-literary writing. We manipulated eight literary and non-literary passages, creating modified versions that had lower word chunk frequencies but higher individual word frequencies than the originals. Subjects were then asked to rate the passages’ quality of writing. Results showed that su...

in the past, residents of arabic island were divided into ghahtanis or hemieris in south and adnanis in north. these two were great nations that left several texts from their own language that there is no doubt about the authenticity of them. by scientific analysis of these texts, historical and literary results can be drawn. the ancient linguists believed that ghahtani's language is diffe...

This paper presents how Natural Language Processing is taught to students of a Master’s Degree in Literary Studies. These students’ background is solely humanistic, and they have no knowledge whatsoever of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The challenge is to introduce these students to the main aspects of NLP in a 20-hour course, and show them how they can apply these techniques to the analys...

This paper investigates a set of ideas collected from philosophy of language, complexity theory, language technology, cognitive science and literary criticism in an attempt to throw light on the (im)possibility of language technology. It is argued that a fundamental difference between humans and computers can be described in terms of a distinction between complex and complicated systems. Howeve...

This article attempts to see, through the structural significances of poetic language, the nature of the split between linguistic description and literary interpretation. Rhythm is the most prominent means of relating form to content in poetic language. The first account of this prominence is seen through identifying its position in the two prosodic forms of metrical and non-metrical poetry. Fo...

this article considers literature with all its literary obligations as a narration of language and analyzes two generations of authors while focusing on the gender variable. in this research two pairs of literary texts within the period of forty years are analyzed using discourse analysis and speech from formalist school of literature, in order to extract the literary and gender features. the a...

“The Slovene literary language is alive and well in the Republic of Slovenia in Yugoslavia, where it is functionally almost completely self-contained and whose speakers are politically, and more especially, economically successful, culturally and in civilizational terms, above the average Yugoslav. However, [the Slovenes] are still all too unaware that it is their literary language to which the...