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The paper presents the analysis of the most frequent linguistic and stylistic means for expressing ethnocultural heterostereotypes in Serbian electronic media. The analysis has been conducted on concrete linguistic excerpts from Serbian electronic media. The paper aims to show characteristics of linguistic and stylistic means for expressing ethnocultural heterostereotypes. The research is a contribution to journalism stylistics. The most frequent linguistic means of ethnocultural heterostereotypes in Serbian electronic media are phraseology with ethnics and metaphors. The analysis of newspaper texts in Serbian digital media showed common choices of phraseology as expressive linguistic means, used to attract and sustain attention. The use of phraseology with ethnics makes factual newspaper text more expressible and draws attention, which also has an impact on shaping ethnocultural stereotypes among readers. In reports and columns, which belong to the publicistic genre, journalists use linguistic and stylistic means for expressing ethnocultural heterotereotypes not to reinforce stereotypes, but to encourage readers to rethink established ideas about other ethnocultural communities.

The article depicts the image of hunters in memoirs of those who used to hunt. There has also been done the attempt of analysis of the linguistic and cultural creation of hunters in the world presented in “The Happy Days “ by Stafan Badeni and “ Memoirs of Hunters “ by Julian Ejsmond.The analysis of the excerpted parts shows that in both works the image of the hunter is complex. The writers point out that the final and total score of the hunting is not the main purpose of the hunter. Both writers signify strong feelings and emotions experienced in contact with the nature, spending time with people sharing the same passions, cultivating centuries- long traditions and the observation of the St. Hubert cult in particular; emphasize also the uniqueness of experiences witnessed only by those connected with hunting. Analyzing the linguistic creation there have been used various stylistic devices (epithets, idioms, metaphoric expressions , images preserved in culture).

This study discusses the approach of Karel Hausenblas (1923-2003), an important Czech linguist and Bohemist, towards literary theory. The main objectives of the study are: 1) to outline the basic theoretical and methodological principles of Karel Hausenblas's scholarly research; 2) to present Hausenblas's conception and treatment of selected terms from literary theory (especially "theme", "literary character" and "space"). The author of the study demonstrates that the theoretical assumptions and methodological principles on which Hausenblas based his stylistic research draw significantly from Czech structuralism, formulating six of his most important theoretical and methodological principles. The outline of his treatment of such literary-theory concepts as "theme", "literary character" and "space" make it clear that Hausenblas was not looking for a fundamentally new conception, but was much more concerned about their precise definition and correlation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following article is a stylistic analysis of N.V.M. Gonzalez's epistolary short story, The Happiest Boy in the World. Content analysis, specifically documentary analysis, was employed to identify stylistic features embedded in select passages from the text that highlights the character's stream of consciousness. The researcher closely analyzed excerpts from the text under the lens of stream-of-consciousness theory, noting how the narrator expressed his thinking process on the letter he was crafting in the story. In other words, the theory and narrative technique of stream of consciousness was explored in the literary piece of N.V.M. Gonzalez to reveal how the character in the story perceived and processed the reality of poverty that he and his family were experiencing, peeked through the painstakingly written letter to the main character's landlord. Furthermore, the analysis of the stream of consciousness of the main character's son in the story was also explored and analyzed to define the concept of happiness against the backdrop of a typical Filipino rural farmer's family culture and values. Finally, integration and implications to English language learning and literature teaching were made in light of the existing scholarship and findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The work in stylistics of Charles Bally (1865–1947) attempts to analyse that subset of a language system in which meaning is not purely conceptual or intellectual, but has an affective, emotional dimension. It is not concerned with literary language, but with everyday language used in the service of 'life', a word which is central for Bally. This paper adds to the definitive study of Bally's stylistics (Taylor 1981) by bringing in material which came to light after its publication, including Médina's (1985) study of Bally's reliance on the work of Henri Bergson, who reconfigured the affective-conceptual dyad and whose writings are the source, Médina shows, of Bally's use of 'life'. This paper also adduces more recently published documents on Bally's intellectual and professional relationship with Ferdinand de Saussure, which figures prominently in Taylor's (1981) account, and which can now be reassessed in a new light. • Re-examines Talbot Taylor's 1981 study of Charles Bally's stylistics in the light of subsequent discoveries concerning Bally's work. • Situates Bally's stylistics in its relationship to Saussure's linguistics, and looks at how both articulate with psychological theories of the time. • Considers the implications of Bally's remarks on Henri Bergson for an understanding of the key concept of 'life' in Bally's Le langage et la vie (1913) and other work. • Looks at how Taylor's study of Bally links to Taylor's later work on understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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One of the dominant fields in the scope of advertising is Fast Food promotion. Junk food advertisements are viral on the Internet, television, billboards and among other types of advertisements. This has led to many people preferring it to other types of food. Several studies have also investigated the effects of junk food advertisements on people's attitudes and preferences. Firstly, it creates some expectations which raise the desire to buy. Secondly, it associates purchase of these foods with some positive feelings such as satisfaction and happiness. Thirdly, it uses a certain entertaining dimension, thus, implying that purchase will boost a pleasant mood. Finally, people are not always conscious about the persuasive nature of advertising. In this connection, the present article aims to study how some linguistic techniques and devices in Fast Food advertisements call people for certain actions (purchase) and make these advertisements effective. The linguistic analysis of all advertisements carried out in the research mainly focused on defining and characterizing the linguostylistic devices used in fast food advertising, taking into consideration specific language levels such as lexicon, phonology, stylistics and grammar. The analysis demonstrates that nearly every advertisement uses rhetorical figures not depending on the thematic domain they come from. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What makes literature the way, it is in the first place, is the writer's eccentric use of language. He/she violates the common rules of writing or everyday speech, and according to Leech (1969) this process is called linguistic deviation by which a writer enjoys the freedom in departing from the conventional norms of a language. When a writer wants to make his fictional work creative, he sometimes uses linguistic deviations which according to Short (1969) have a strong and excellent psychological effect on the recipient's (hearer and reader) responses to the characters, and Dickens' unique use of language is not an exception that it has made him the greatest Victorian writer and novelist of England during the eighteenth century. This study attempts to explore the linguistic deviations, particularly the grammatical and phonological ones, and the purpose or the reason behind the usage of language deviations in Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities. This novel is stylistically analyzed based on Leech's theory (1969) in his work "A linguistic Guide to English Poetry" about linguistic deviations. The theory contains eight types of deviation, the current research, however, concentrates on the grammatical and phonological violations of the use of English language in Dickens' mentioned novel. The research problem is related to the exploration of linguistic deviation in Dickens' style. To what extent Dickens deviates from the linguistic conventions in his use of language as far as grammar and phonology are concerned? What is the purpose of incorporating linguistic deviations in A Tale of Two Cities? Dickens' novels have a number of different types of deviations. This study is significant as it presents a stylistic analysis from a linguistic point of view, and it sheds light on Charles Dickens' writing style and his creative use of language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current study looks at the poetry of Hazrat Khawaja Ghulam Fareed (RA) through the humble lenses of stylistics and the sublime. The researchers have tried to explore various aspects of the celebrated Sufi Master's poetic style in the background of stylistic characteristics defined by Leech and Short (2013) and Leech (2014). The timehonoured poetry shows the versatile personality of Khawaja Fareed. Khawaja sahib's kafis show glimpses of his great status as a scholar, researcher, explorer, communicator and historian. The focal point of the current study is to arrive at or discover the new metaphor the great poet introduced as a poet. In addition, the study explores linguistic aspects found in his poetry. The article begins with introduction of relevant aspects of stylistics, briefs about Rohi and rounds off by comparing the stylistic and artistic accomplishments of Fareed with other poets of Persian, Urdu and English. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corpus stylistics is the study of style by applying linguistic theory and the corpus-based approach. Therefore it combines qualitative and quantitative study. This study adopts the stylistic theory of Leech and Short (2007) and the corpus-based approach to analyze the science fiction The Time Machine. By using the corpus tools WordSmith 7.0 and AntConc, the lexical features and rhetorical features are extracted. Then the writing style and the theme are discussed. Therefore, the research enriches the empirical study of corpus-based fiction stylistics and encourages the appreciation of science fiction in the early times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Style can be defined as the way language is used in a given context. Literary style can be defined as the linguistic patterns chosen by a particular author intentionally or unintentionally among all of the other options that are not chosen by her/him. The focal point of the study is to do a stylistic analysis of The Alchemist (1993), written by famous Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho, which is the most influential novel with its profound thoughts and remarkable artistry. The novel has a unique narrative structure and profound symbolic meaning. As the research is theoretical, analytical, and descriptive in nature, close reading text-based analysis is applied in the analysis of the novel. The theoretical framework for the present study is a stylistic model based on linguistic and stylistic features proposed by Leech and Short (2007) that have been applied. They described a list of different categories; lexical categories, grammatical categories, figures of speech, coherence, and cohesion, but the present study focused on only two categories; lexical categories and grammatical categories. The researcher used a "mixed approach" for the study. The researcher used a secondary source of data collection. The present study used a non-random sampling design. Thus, in this study, the researcher has done a stylistic analysis of the novel and has presented how academic readers can better understand the writer's use of different literary elements and how meanings are constructed from a specific novel to reveal its themes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A writer’s style reflects how textual meaning-making processes are achieved through a literary text's form, which includes various textual strategies employed. Available literature suggests that almost every linguistic theory takes the sentence structure as a combination of ‘form’ and ‘content’, whose taxonomic amplifications provide a springboard for description that leads to a more comprehensive extension of linguistic analyses revealing the semantic and symbolic aspects of language making up a text. Hence, although textual analysis may start by identifying its form and content, a comprehensive approach that engulfs a text’s syntactic and semantic aspects provides a broader perspective. Keeping these in mind, this study is based on the premise that structural analysis enables the identification of the poet’s recurrent method of composing different literary texts of the same genre and guides analysts to semantic interpretations. Examining the poetic language of a selection of haikus written by Wright, with a focus on the syntactic and semantic identifications, it is observed that the poet has an uncompromising style toward utilizing a pattern with minor alterations to construct various poems. The poet achieves an effective diction using a restricted number of lexical and grammatical items, which fits into the terseness of haikus, a poetic form known for its brevity and conciseness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the phenomenon of theatricality as the interface of theatre and literature from the standpoint of intermediality theory. Based on the typology of intermedial forms in art and fiction, the manifestation of theatricality in postmodernist prose is viewed as an example of "covert" intra-compositional intermediality or, in other words, intermedial reference. From this perspective, textual manifestations of theatricality are deduced within two modes--thematization (explicit mentions or discussion of theatre, including theatrical meta-references) and verbal imitation of theatrical effects at the narrative and compositional levels. Literary postmodernism provides manifold examples of such intermediality--from theatre-based lexis and imagery to complex narrative and compositional techniques in M. Atwood's "Hag-Seed," J. Fowles's "The Magus," and L. Groff's "Fates and Furies". On a wider scale, an inquiry into the phenomenon of theatricality from the standpoint of literary linguistics and intermediality elucidates perspectives of exploring the mechanisms of inter-art relations in postmodernist fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper highlights the professional and expert scientific research of the member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Hezegovina, full-time professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, Ms. Marina Katnić-Bakaršić. Special emphasis is drawn to the author’s monographs, as well as the reception and responses to her research from the academic community, which are quite a few in number. The Academy member and professor Ms. Marina Katnić-Bakaršić proves and shows that contemporary stylistics is inevitably interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary, and offers guidelines for its further development. Emphasizing the importance of foundation in theory and knowledge in various linguistic, semiotic, social, and disciplines of literary theory, the author advocates for introducing the eclectic approach; in other words, for the combination of different models, which include description, analysis, and interpretation. The pioneer work of the Academy member and professor Katnić-Bakaršić in discourse stylistics and critical discourse analysis (CDA), as well as feminist language theory and the advancement of the subject of stylistics in other semiotic systems, notably visual ones, represents a special contribution to stylistics development in our region.

This article contributes to the understanding of how readers experience speech presentation. Speech presentation is part of the discourse presentation model (Leech and Short, 1981), which outlines a series of strategies for how a speech event can be presented. The model outlines six categories of speech presentation and positions these categories on a scale of faithfulness. Each category of speech presentation has a prototypical faithfulness assumption which is influenced by textual features such as the reporting verb, amount of propositional content presented to the reader and other linguistic features. Speech presentation has received lots of attention by scholars; Semino et al (1999) and McIntyre et al (2004) demonstrate the model’s applicability in both written and spoken discourse. Despite the model being developed to account for the presentation of speech writing and thought (Short et al, 2002), few studies consider readers’ experiences of speech presentation. This study uses a reader response questionnaire to show how respondents experience speech presentation. It will also demonstrate the usefulness of qualitative and quantitative analysis; use statistical methods to identify significant differences in respondents’ experiences of the texts; and carry out stylistic analyses of the texts in order to account for the results observed. The results observed suggest that readers have high levels of confidence in speech that is presented using certain linguistic features. Therefore, the article examines these linguistic features more broadly and discusses the implication of their presence in speech presentation and how this can affect the experience of a reader. I also outline the practical implications of my research in areas such as law and journalism, and how the findings I report on can enable text producers, or those responsible for presenting others’ speech, to mitigate any confusion or unintended misrepresentation that could be perceived by the recipient.

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Examining the syntagmatic relationship between sound and discourse, Üç Gencin Kalbi is a poem which consists of three parts and is fictionalized with heterodiegetic narrator. In addition to semiotics, it could also be interpreted together with the data of the principles of stylistics like repetition, prioritization, and opposition when it is divided into sections. It reflects Ece Ayhan's understanding of poetry in Ikinci Yeni. It is seen that linguistic indicators and markers in the poem fixes the meaning at the syntagmatic level and obscures the meaning paradigmatically. The indicators in the poem are examined superficially and in detail. Found suitable to be analyzed with these theories that both have linguistics background and opposite of each other, this poem analysis breaks the established ideas. In this poem approached with two opposite theories based on contrast and parallelism relations, building unusual relationships between form-content and structure-theme is narrated with the subjects of the seaman (S1), the boy (S2) and the poet (S3). In this study, the poem's semiotic analysis based on Roland Barthes' approach and its stylistic analysis based on the theory of Geoffrey Leech will be conducted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Jozef Mistrík´s longtime research gives us an important insight into the journalistic style and media language. This study focuses on the evolution of stylistics conception in the papers and monographs written by Jozef Mistrík with the accent on book publications of his stylistics. The aim of this text is to identify and to interpret changes and shifts in characteristics of journalistic style. The study focuses on the three aspects of Mistrík´s conception of stylistics – definition, main aspects and genres – in the context of journalistic style. The study was drafted to commemorate the 100th jubilee of Jozef Mistrík´s birth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Stylistics (stylistics, rhetoric, stylistics) is a research area between linguistics and literary criticism. Stylistic studies both criticize texts in terms of their literariness and deal with the depiction of the order in their linguistic structures. In this study, significiant theoretical studies have been made in order to simplify Turkish and become it a national language, and the story of Ömer Seyfettin, who is the owner of the first literary and intellectual texts written within the framework of these, has been analyzed in terms of stylistics. For the study, the nature of the text reflecting its conformity with "New Language" (Yeni Lisan) understanding has been taken into account in the selection of the story "Aşk ve Ayak Parmakları" published by Ömer Seyfettin in 1914. The grammatical categories in the story of Ömer Seyfettin, who succeeded in establishing a new literary language by bringing Turkish closer to the spoken language in terms of its vocabulary and pronunciation features, have been analyzed in terms of quantitative style. In this respect, this study aims to analyze the formal features of a qualified text, which actually represents the literary language Ömer Seyfettin wants to establish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay presents a cognitive stylistic analysis of Philip Larkin's "Talking in Bed," highlighting the linguistic functions that aid the reader in the meaning-making process. In the poem, the realization of truth dawns upon the persona in the final moments of a lingering introspection, shedding light on the reason for which he is lying in bed beside his partner, profoundly incapable of uttering a word. It seems to him, in the end, that truth is indispensable to human relationships. This essay represents a thorough attempt at textually analyzing the poem, broaching snippets of knowledge from multiple fields - philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and literature - all in an attempt to present a comprehensive interpretation of Larkin's poem. The aim is to further evidence the speaker's realization, that the articulation of truth is a vital element in a healthy relationship, and to provide an understanding of the stylistic technique most utilized by Larkin, namely, the linguistic deviation he usually deploys by the end of his poems. I argue that the ambiguity he instills at the end of this poem makes for a cognitive attempt at empathically communicating to the reader the sense of meaninglessness the persona suffers from throughout the poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a stylistic analysis of the tasting notes (TNs) of wine writers Jancis Robinson and Terry Theise. We define linguistic style as those distinctive, consistent, and creative linguistic choices writers make beyond what is conventionally expected in a TN, which are only discernible by comparison to other wine reviewers. Using a corpus of Robinson's and Theise's TNs on German and Austrian wines 2012, we compare their TNs in terms of rhetorical and grammatical structure, use of descriptors, and other evaluative language. Robinson's elliptical note-form style is characterized by adherence to canonical rhetorical structure, verbless clauses, extensive use of conventional metaphoric descriptors and limited use of object descriptors. Theise has an effusive, people-centered additive style characterized by non-conventional rhetorical structure, multiple phrase and clause and coordination, and extensive and exotic use of diverse object descriptors, personification, and intensifier + evaluative adjective phrases. We then connect their varying linguistic styles to their differing approaches to wine tasting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Broadly speaking, linguistic periphrase is the use of a complex descriptive expression instead of a single word. The subjects of the description in the article are poetic periphrases referring to the names of singing women. This general term is related to different types of singing activities, which can be done by: singers, vocalists, opera singers, divas, soloists, choristers, prima donnas, chancellors. The aim of the research was to collect a complete set of contemporary peripheral terms of Polish and foreign singing women, to analyse their structure in formal terms and to analyse the lexemes (14 reference units and 9 proper names) as constitutive elements of periphrases. The article includes an alphabetical index of personal names along with the descriptive expressions for them (over 60 analytical lexical units). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to provide a close view of the concepts of linguistic stylistics and literary stylistics, as well as their place in the realm of linguistic investigation. The focus lies on the contrastive analysis of the differences and similarities between them,ş more precisely, the article has in view their analytical tools and last but not least, their goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Repetition is a common literary device that can be used to create associative networks within a text, parallel structures suggesting similarities in meaning, or a wide span of effects ranging from monotony to excitement. If repetition is a common literary device, then it follows that its translation is a common challenge for the literary translator. However, translators tend to avoid repetition and by doing so often fail to recreate the function the repetition fulfils in the source text. Using Michael Cunningham's literary travelogue Lands End: A walk in Provincetown and its German translation as a case study, in this paper I will have a closer look at the literary function of repetition and how omitting the repetition in the target text can affect the text's meaning potential. In addition, I will discuss alternative solutions that maintain the literary function in the target text. In particular, I will argue that the target text does not necessarily need to mirror the linguistic form of the source-text repetition, but can employ other stylistic means to recreate its literary function in the target text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A detailed analysis of a short phrase demonstrates that David Foster Wallace manipulated linguistic variables on all levels of language (phonological, orthographical, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic) to help direct readers' attention and underline particularly important themes in his work. While critics have often praised the author's facility with language, focusing on his extraordinary vocabulary or singling out a particular linguistic pattern as noteworthy, it is the congruence of so many variables that makes Wallace a master of poetic language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Existing linguistic studies on prose discourse have largely focused on what Nigerian English forms (NEFs) are utilised to better express Nigerian writers' themes, but have not accommodated how the NEFs have creatively been deployed to show the writers' identity in the discourse. In filling this gap, therefore, the paper takes a text-linguistic approach, relying on insights from David Jowitt's view on Popular Nigerian English (PNE), Michael Halliday's systemic functional grammar, and aspects of stylistics discourse, in examining some of the structural features of NEFs in Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (PH), with a view to establishing how the Igbo variety of the PNE has motivated the use of NEFs in the novel. Five preponderant structural patterns were identified through which nativisation occurs in the text: colloquial utterances, transliteration, Igbo-influenced structure of clause, code mixing, and code switching. These structural instances of NEFs in PH have been observed to be tilted towards the Igbo variety of the PNE as motivated by the native language of the author. Thus, the NEFs are constrained by the linguistic pattern and socio-cultural world-view of the Igbo, which give the speakers of English in the region a linguistic identity that includes them in the PNE at large. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]