The structuralist-inspired development of narrative theories in France from the late 1960s onward has spawned a whole host opportunities to explore way narratives function. This is precisely what Gerald Prince undertakes his Narratology: Form and Functioning Narrative, which he delineates mutual relationship between narrator narratee as two most important constituents any narrative. framework u...

In Poetic Effects Adrian Pilkington proposes that Sperber and Wilson's (1986; 1995) relevance theory can help fill the explanatory gap between textual patterns and their potential aesthetic effects. Before applying relevance theory to poetic texts, Pilkington first presents his position with regard to literary theory. This position is not unproblematic, however, and therefore requires some disc...

â â â  poetic stories in ilia abu mazi’s poetic works â â â  sadeq fathi dehkordi * â  shlyr fathi ** â  abstract â  â  poetic story is a kind of art firmly connected to poetry and story and is a sign of restoration in arabic poetry furthermore, it is an artistic field for presenting poets' ability in putting poetry and tale together. this genre has included many current poetic works. ab...

Motivated by the need to explore the introductory sections of textbooks, the present study attempted to scrutinize three realizations of academic introductions, namely, Preface, Introduction, and Foreword in terms of their functions and potential generic structures in light of Swales’s (1990) views of genre. Moreover, the study aimed to investigate genre-mixing as an interdiscursivity element a...

In order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the Persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of Iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. Metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...

Waka is a form of traditional Japanese poetry with a 1300year history. In this paper we attempt to semi-automatically discover instances of poetic allusion, or more generally, to find similar poems in anthologies of waka poems. The key to success is how to define the similarity measure on poems. We first examine the existing similarity measures on strings, and then give a unifying framework tha...