Affixation is one of the most common and productive ways to form new words in English and forming words through suffix, an affix that is placed after a base, and is a significant component of affixation. Although numerous studies on common suffixes have been conducted, relatively little attention has been paid to the seemingly less used affixes, say the suffix –esque. A thorough analysis is con...

Over recent years, the use of corpora in stylistic analysis has grown in popularity. However, questions still remain over the remit of corpus stylistics, its distinction from corpus linguistics generally and its capacity to explain complex stylistic effects. This article argues in favour of an integrated corpus stylistics; that is, an approach to corpus stylistics that integrates it with other ...

This paper introduces new methods based on exponential families for modeling the correlations between words in text and speech. While previous work assumed the effects of word co-occurrence statistics to be constant over a window of several hundred words, we show that their influence is nonstationary on a much smaller time scale. Empirical data drawn from English and Japanese text, as well as c...

Text classification is an important and challenging research domain. In this paper, identifying historical period and ethnic origin of documents using stylistic feature sets is investigated. The application domain is Jewish Law articles written in Hebrew-Aramaic. Such documents present various interesting problems for stylistic classification. Firstly, these documents include words from both la...

Objective: The objectives of the study are to identify and categorize non-native students´ errors in written summaries, see which research instruments – mobile reading app (experimental group) or internet-based article (control more effective, determine if language proficiency students will improve. Methods: This uses an analysis linguistic-stylistic as a method on performance 29 EFL Slovak sum...

The study of comparative stylistics attempts to catalogue and explain the differences in style between languages. We describe a formal model of comparative syntactic stylistics that could be implemented in a machine translation system, enabling the system to make a more informed decision about possible translation choices and their potential stylistic effects. 1 Stylistic adequacy of translatio...

no doupt that the qur'anic expression contains secrets and aesthetics and artistic touches and images which show that the quran art intended to support this opinion that it isn’t people speech. so, this research is going to study sura «sad» using a stylistic approach, which focuses on data general linguistic and deals with the role of image and music sounds  and vocabularies in  sura, and ...

Attribution of anonymous texts, if not based on factors external to the text (such as paper and ink type or document provenance, as used in forensic document examination), is largely, if not entirely, based on considerations of language style. We will consider here the question of how to best deconstruct a text into quantitative features for purposes of stylistic discrimination. Two key conside...

How do standards of poetic beauty change as a function of time and expertise? Here we use computational methods to compare the stylistic features of 359 English poems written by 19th century professional poets, Imagist poets, contemporary professional poets, and contemporary amateur poets. Building upon techniques designed to analyze style and sentiment in texts, we examine elements of poetic c...