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 ...

Previous work in using Artificial Neural Networks for computational stylistics has concentrated on using large, arbitrary network structures. This paper examines the use of the Cascade-Correlation algorithm for the construction of minimal networks. We find that a number of problems in computational stylistics with a large number of variables, but a limited number of training examples may be sol...

Stylistics, which may be defined as the study of the language of literature, makes use of various tools of linguistic analysis. Corpus linguistics is opening up new vistas for the study of language, and there are interesting similarities in the approaches of stylistics and corpus linguistics. Stylistics is a field of empirical inquiry, in which the insights and techniques of linguistic theory a...

Poetry can offer a wide range of language learning opportunities to ESL learners if it’s taught interactively and linguistically. Poetry is embellished with rhythm, beautiful diction and elevated grammatical features. These features can serve as a powerful stimulus to ESL students in learning grammar, vocabulary and integrated language skills. Some of the researchers pointed out that Poetry was...

There are three major issues which crop up in the discussion of metaphor among philosophers of language. They are: whether metaphor is cognitive, whether it is descriptive, and whether it is innovative. Those who deny that metaphor is cognitive are a group more often imagined than encountered, but if they existed they would consign the study of metaphor to affective stylistics, stressing the or...

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...

Stylistics is the proper study of literature. We mean this in several senses. Firstly, it is fit and apt. It is special and specialised. It is delineated by rules and principles, and by reasonable, open and honest argument. And for the evaluative sense of ‘proper’, we also do mean to suggest that it is ethically superior to other, non-stylistic forms of literary study. We insist that any approa...

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...