In English teaching, there has been a dichotomy between language and literature. Literature is sometimes perceived as isolated from language. Teachers of are reluctant to teach literature feeling that they do not possess the competence in feel similar reluctance due perception master grammar adequately. This article tries find possible way teaching grammatical aspects through literary works by ...

This study determined if a language-based approach using literary texts in teaching English will improve the grammatical competence of Grade 9 students verbals. To generate data on level proficiency and competence, pretest post-test were used to assess learning outcome subjects study. Based analysis data, results revealed that after implementation approach, respondents gerund infinitive is appr...

In answering the question 'what is special about the gene' from a literary perspective, the article suggests that if literary appreciation is often seen as a mark of human exceptionalism, knowledge of the gene may undermine this claim. Tracing some of the historical and philosophical complexities that circulate around the word 'gene', the article argues that in one sense 'the gene' plays the le...

CONCEPTIONS OF THE POETIC IN CLASSICAL GREEK PROSE Alison C. Traweek Dr. Sheila Murnaghan This dissertation explores how prose authors of the Classical period envisioned literary distinctions, particularly how and when they labeled a particular utterance ‘poetic’. The first chapter addresses fifth-century prose authors whose work survives in significant degree (Herodotus, Thucydides), or whose ...

Devoting time to serious bibliographical matters as a tribute to Ted Nelson may seem like a quaintly out-of-tune and bookish, if not totally misguided project. It is easy to pigeon-hole Ted’s work as belonging to a generation of adventurous and creative writers and editors active during the 1960s who began to fi nd that traditional print media constrained the expression of their ideas. Marshall...

When processing literary narratives, standard temporal annotation specifications – typically developed for processing newsstyle documents – do not match the expectations of literary scholars. Thus, a different definition of temporal signals is required. In this paper, we define this concept from the narratological perspective and present our hybrid approach developed in the context of the heure...

Literary texts include linguistic form, as well as specialized literary forms (some of which also involve language). Linguistics can offer to literary studies an understanding of these kinds of form, and the ways by which a text is used to communicate meaning. In order to cope with the great variety of creative uses of language in literature, linguistics must acknowledge that some texts are ass...

We consider several types of literary-theoretic approaches to literary text analysis; we describe several concepts from Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence that could be used to model

1 . The present paper presents an original interdisciplinary study of style-shifting in literary translation, which draws upon methodologies and techniques from corpus stylistics and computational stylometry, and relevant sociolinguistic theories of style variation. Such an innovative approach to the literary translator’s idiosyncratic use of language sets out to address one of the most difficu...

studies in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance of metaphors for language teaching. metaphoric competence, as an important aspect of intelligence, can contribute to the learning of languages. most textbooks in esl/efl avoid the issue of figurative language and concentrate only on the denotative aspects of language. this article reports a study conducted at the islamic azad univ...