The growing number of recent publications on pedagogical stylistics indicates that this area is still of much interest to those who invest in the integration of language and literature. However, evidencebased assessments of pedagogical stylistics are still few and depend mostly on teachers’ intuitions. The present study contributes towards filling this gap by examining 28 reflective accounts pr...

naqib al-mamalek shirazi, the court storyteller of naser al-din shah, has composed two tales: amir arsalan and malek jamshid. naqib created amir arsalan for naser al-din shah and retold it to him frequently, but he composed malek jamshid in a different condition. this essay attempts to study stylistic differences between the two texts. the goal is to show the role of textural factors and the ci...

n the recent years, the knowledge of stylistics has experienced some new branches. thanks to the recent efforts of a group of linguists, traditional stylistics has changed its branches in favour of genres, rather than the types of prose and verse. up until two decades ago, stylistics mainly focused on the form of the text, and the genres were almost ignored or overlooked. however, in the light ...

This paper argues that corpus stylistics can contribute methodologies and concepts to support the investigation of character information in fiction. Focusing on Charles Dickens, the paper looks at lexicogrammatical patterns as well as places in the literary text. It suggests that clusters, i.e. repeated sequences of words, and suspensions, i.e. interruptions of charactersÿ speech by the narrato...

Stylistics is the proper study of literature. We mean this in several senses. Firstly, it is fit and apt. It is special and specialised. It is delineated by rules and principles, and by reasonable, open and honest argument. And for the evaluative sense of ‘proper’, we also do mean to suggest that it is ethically superior to other, non-stylistic forms of literary study. We insist that any approa...

In this study we extracted speaker-specific functional expressions from political speeches using random forests in order to investigate speakers’ individual political styles. Along with methodological development, stylistics has expanded its scope into new areas of application such as authorship profiling and sentiment analysis in addition to conventional areas such as authorship attribution an...

This research presented the Stylistics analysis of National Geographic magazine’s cover June edition. The magazine was chosen because it is one magazine's newest issues by time researcher conducting this research. Stylistic approach employed to understand and reveal editor's purposes in using specific language visual features. Considering analyzes feature; therefore, theory grammar employed. To...

Stylistics is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic analysis style in language, particularly literary style. Poetry has been staple stylistics. Creative performance poems and stylistic analysis, however, have rarely bedfellows. I showcase stylistics pedagogy for creatively interpreting poetry higher education where students make digitally multimodal storied interpretations poems...

We are developing stylistic grammars to provide the basis for a French and English stylistic parser. Our stylistic grammar is a branching stratificational model, built upon a foundation dealing with lexical, syntactic, and semantic stylistic realizations. Its central level uses a vocabulary of constituent stylistic elements common to both English and French, while the top level correlates styli...