Cognitive stylistics offers a range of frameworks for understanding (amongst other things) what producers of literary texts 'do' with language and how they 'do' it. Less prevalent, however, is an understanding of the ways in which these same frameworks offer insights into what readers 'do' (and how they 'do' it). Text World Theory (Werth, 1999; Gavins, 2007; Whiteley, 2011) has proved useful fo...

Computational stylistics refers informally to a collection of tasks within computational linguistics that deal with the style—as opposed to the semantic content—of natural language. The most famous of these tasks is perhaps authorship attribution (Stamatatos et al., 2001), which uses statistical variations in word choice to select the most likely from a fixed set of potential authors. Though ap...

researchers paid special attention to statistical stylistics studies such that recognition and discrimination of different styles in every text can be possible applying this method. bosiman's statistical stylistics is quantitative but not qualitative.  in this study, we have investigated examples of hamedani's and yazeji's maqamat based on bosiman's equation in the paper. th...