since the start of the last century, along with those literary men who took a literary approach to the study of literary texts, there has been another group who has taken a linguistic approach. the ancient and ever flourishing tradition of literary studies of translation can no doubt take benefit from linguistic methods and tools in the investigations of literary texts. as a result of this we c...

Early computational linguists supplied much of theoretical basis that the ALPAC report said was needed for research on the practical problem of machine translation. The result of their efforts turned out to be more fundamental in that it provided a general theoretical basis for the study of language use as a process, giving rise eventually to constraint-based grammatical formalisms for syntax, ...

Categories are not invariant. This paper attempts to explore the dynamic nature of semantic category, in particular, that of fashion language, based on the cognitive theory of Dawkins’ memetics, a new theory of cultural evolution. Semantic attributes of linguistic memes decrease or proliferate in replication and spreading, which involves a dynamic development of semantic category. More specific...