1 . The present paper presents an original interdisciplinary study of style-shifting in literary translation, which draws upon methodologies and techniques from corpus stylistics and computational stylometry, and relevant sociolinguistic theories of style variation. Such an innovative approach to the literary translator’s idiosyncratic use of language sets out to address one of the most difficu...

This article was written based on the key concept of polysystem theory which, in translating any literary text, emphasizes the transference of the social systems in which a text is embedded. As stated by Tynjanov (1978a), polysystem theory saw translated literature as a system operating in the larger social systems of the target text. Thus, the task of understanding as well as transferring such...

Defining the specific role of the factors that affect metaphor processing is a fundamental step for fully understanding figurative language comprehension, either in discourse and conversation or in reading poems and novels. This study extends the currently available materials on everyday metaphorical expressions by providing the first dataset of metaphors extracted from literary texts and score...

Devoting time to serious bibliographical matters as a tribute to Ted Nelson may seem like a quaintly out-of-tune and bookish, if not totally misguided project. It is easy to pigeon-hole Ted’s work as belonging to a generation of adventurous and creative writers and editors active during the 1960s who began to fi nd that traditional print media constrained the expression of their ideas. Marshall...

We consider several types of literary-theoretic approaches to literary text analysis; we describe several concepts from Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence that could be used to model

We consider the task of predicting how literary a text is, with a gold standard from human ratings. Aside from a standard bigram baseline, we apply rich syntactic tree fragments, mined from the training set, and a series of hand-picked features. Our model is the first to distinguish degrees of highly and less literary novels using a variety of lexical and syntactic features, and explains 76.0 %...

Evolutionary psychology has penetrated many disciplines, and space limitations unfortunately precluded inclusion of all of them. Asthese words are written , there are rapidly emerging new hybrid disciplines, such as evolutionary In the final analysis, all human behavior-including economic behavior, legal behavior, artistic behavior , and organizational behavior-is a product of evolved psycholog...

Only a few attempts have so far been made at exploring the process of metaphor production, although a large number of studies have addressed metaphor comprehension. Therefore, in this paper, we address the problem of how people generate metaphors or identify an apt vehicle for a given topic of metaphors. Specifically, we examine how the process and product of metaphor production differ between ...