Emerging within Systemic Linguistics, Appraisal/Evaluation is a framework for analyzing the language of evaluation, providing techniques for the systematic analysis of evaluation and stance as they operate in whole texts and in groupings of texts. There are three systems in the Appraisal framework: Attitude, Engagement, and Graduation. This study sets out to analyze the use of the system of Eng...

The paper provides an analysis of formal and informal anthroponyms that act in the classical modern Ukrainian prose. A case study names given to characters prose works I. Nechui-Levytskyi, Panas Myrnyi, M. Kulish, H. Tarasiuk, S. Protsiuk, Hrymych, Kidruk etc. shows how serve as means linguistic expressiveness, reveals thought emotional space character, his/her personal, national, religious ide...

Literature is a measure of nation’s spiritual development, as well an expression its and educational experiences. It known that fiction, which embodies great social power, exerts active influence on the expansion human consciousness formulation aesthetic taste. In evolution Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Afghan literature, progression narrative genre toward prose, plot stories, compositional structu...

Style Non-abstract modals (prediction, necessity, possibility) suasive verbs conditional subordination agentless passives by passives passive dependent clauses professional letters editorials broadcasts (press reviews) technical prose (other academic prose) (official documents) conversations, fiction personal letters public speeches public conversations broadcasts Table 8 F scores and correlati...

Mindreading refers to the ability to attribute mental states, including thoughts, intentions and emotions, to oneself and others, and is essential for navigating the social world. Empirical mindreading research has predominantly featured children, groups with autism spectrum disorder and clinical samples, and many standard tasks suffer ceiling effects with neurologically typical (NT) adults. We...

Despite the tremendous strides made in recent years by Australian theatre and despite the dozen or more dedicated and professional playwrights which this has helped support there is nevertheless a greater sense of expectation than achievement in most public response to the plays and playwrights which have emerged. Distinctive, even distinguished, plays and writers can be found but there still s...

This paper describes the way in which personal relationships between main characters in 19 century Swedish prose fiction can be identified using information guided by named entities, provided by a entity recognition system adapted to the 19 century Swedish language characteristics. Interpersonal relation extraction is based on the context between two relevant, identified person entities. The re...