Trend of Pakistani English Fiction Since Partition to 1970; is a multidimensional effort to not only to highlight the prevalent themes and trends of the fiction , but also to bring into limelight those legends of Pakistani English Fiction, who can be considered the founders of English fiction in Pakistan. The phenomenon includes a lot of names, which are now completely forgotten or are taken fo...

T he purpose of a scientific paper is to communicate results and analysis to the wider scientific community. The better a paper is written, the more readers it will attract and the more citations it is likely to receive. This alone should be sufficient to convince any scientist to put significant effort into his or her writing; unfortunately, this is rarely the case. More than a decade ago, Mar...

Story generation is experiencing a revival, despite disappointing preliminary results from the preceding three decades. One of the principle reasons for previous inadequacies was the low level of writing quality, which resulted from the excessive focus of story grammars on plot design. Although these systems leveraged narrative theory via corpora analyses, they failed to thoroughly extend those...

The rise of component-based software development has created a need for API documentation. Experience has shown that it is hard to create and maintain precise and readable documentation. Prose documentation can provide a good overview but lacks precision. Formal methods ooer precision but the resulting documentation is expensive to write and modify. Worse, few developers have the skill or incli...

This article examines Thomas Hardy's conflicting responses to late-Victorian debates about grammatical prescriptivism and linguistic purism. While Hardy claimed that “purism, whether in grammar or vocabulary, almost always means ignorance,” he also frequently expressed his interest the (perhaps unrealizable) ideal of a “pure English” founded on fixed unequivocal rules. Focusing Tess d'Urbervill...

This study focuses on the application of syntactic analysis in aspect sentence building children's fiction essays by slow learner students primary school Selangor and Putrajaya, Malaysia. The objectives this are: to analyze structure elements produced a selected sample; associate with ability sample writing from language point view; as well recommend teaching learning (PdP) strategies for stude...

The article is devoted to the motivic analysis of literature. object study linguistic means reflecting components wind in literature, and their identification Lermontov's texts. subject most significant works Lermontov 1831-1841s, including words with semantic component ‘wind'. scientific novelty work lies fact that it attempts identify implementing motif M.Y. poetic prose purpose this determin...

Susan Sontag's book, Illness as Metaphor, has framed our understanding of the relationship between disease metaphors and illness experiences in modern Western society. Her view that metaphors can render diseases socially as well as physically mortifying has influenced a generation of scholars: her conclusion that cancer sufferers are shamed and silenced by metaphors has likewise shaped public p...

mohammad tâher mirza eskandari est l’un des traducteurs des dernières années du règne de nasser-ed din chah et des premières années de celui de mozaffar-ed din chah. jusqu’avant l’établissement de la constitution en iran la traduction des œuvres d’alexandre dumas était le monopole de mohammad tâher mirza. ses compétences scientifiques et littéraires faisaient que le monarque, son héritier du tr...

In this paper I analyze two contemporary works of interactive fiction (IF), Nick Montfort’s Ad Verbum and Emily Short’s City of Secrets, as examples of two contrasting ways in which IF reacts to the perceived threat of computer graphics. In the postcommercial era of IF, graphics represent a factor that, without being acknowledged, has profoundly shaped the development of the medium. Post-graphi...