aptness, defined as how the vehicle is well able to cover the salient features of the tenor (e.g., oil is like liquid gold vs. a train is like a worm), is claimed to be an important factor in the preference for metaphors over similes, or vice versa. this study was an attempt to test for the supposed correlation between the perceived degree of aptness and a priori stylistic preference for metaph...

Aptness, defined as how the vehicle is well able to cover the salient features of the tenor (e.g., oil is like liquid gold vs. a train is like a worm), is claimed to be an important factor in the preference for metaphors over similes, or vice versa. This study was an attempt to test for the supposed correlation between the perceived degree of aptness and a priori stylistic preference for metaph...

A significant part of the meaning of any text lies in the author's style. Different choices of words and syntactic structure convey different nuances in meaning, which must be carried through in any translation if it is to be considered faithful. Up to now, machine translation systems have been unable to do this. Subtleties of style are simply lost to current MT systems. The goal of the present...

Despite the criticisms of subcultural theory as a framework for the sociological study of the relationship between youth, music, style and identity, the term ‘subculture’ continues to be widely used in such work. It is a central contention of this article that, as with subcultural theory, the concept of ‘subculture’ is unworkable as an objective analytical tool in sociological work on youth, mu...

In this paper we focus on the transition from undergraduate to postgraduate study in mathematics through the lens of the construct ‘thinking style’ as defined by Sternberg (1997). A cross-sectional study (N=54) was conducted in the Department of Mathematics of a large university in Greece. The data analysis reveals some statistically significant (though far from straightforward) stylistic diffe...

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 ...

Lexica l Syn t ac t i c Se ma n t i c Stylistic Stylistic Stylistic G r a m m a r G r a m m a r G r a m m a r Figure 1 A stylistic grammar. of primitive stylistic elements and rules for combining them. At the central level, we use a single vocabulary of abstract elements, stylistic terms that are maximally expressive. Rules relate these abstract elements to patterns of lexical, syntactic, and s...

ness, concreteness, staticness, or dynamism. The other grammar-based approach to assessing stylistic goals was implemented by Ryan et al. (1992). The stylistic goals of this grammar (with settings in brackets) are as follows: emphasis (emphatic, neutral, at); clarity (clear, neutral, obscure); and dynamism (dynamic, neutral, static). In this grammar, the basis for evaluating these goals was sem...

Lexica l Syn t ac t i c Se ma n t i c Stylistic Stylistic Stylistic G r a m m a r G r a m m a r G r a m m a r Figure 1 A stylistic grammar. of primitive stylistic elements and rules for combining them. At the central level, we use a single vocabulary of abstract elements, stylistic terms that are maximally expressive. Rules relate these abstract elements to patterns of lexical, syntactic, and s...