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The present study aims at analyzing proverbs from the Book of Proverbs rhetorically and stylistically to identify the features of such proverbs that belong to the genre of wisdom literature which affects people's lives significantly. The data which consists of 60 proverbs that represent the three themes under investigation were analyzed using Mann and Thompson's (1988) model of rhetorical analysis and Simpson's (2004) model of stylistic analysis. Data analysis yielded that the macro level (nucleus) was used more frequently than the micro level (satellite) both in the whole data and across the themes. Declarative clauses were used more frequently than imperative and interrogative ones in both cases to produce more persuasive proverbs. Compound sentences were the highest in frequency followed by complex and then simple sentences to strongly influence the readers. Using parallelism and repetition in proverbs contributed to producing more persuasive proverbs whereas adjectives and adverbs affected the way the audience felt. This study sheds light on proverbs which contribute to spreading wisdom among the readers and help them to face the challenges of life more wisely, make wise choices and differentiate between what is good and what's bad. It also identifies the features which make those proverbs more persuasive and more coherent to help when composing new ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this study is to conduct a stylistic analysis of the selected poems of Emily Dickinson, a 19th-century poet, and Lang Leav, a contemporary poet, focused on the graphological level of the poems. The researcher selected four poems by Dickinson and Leav as the literary texts to be analyzed. Using comparative stylistic analysis, the study aims to look for the graphological features woven in the poems of Dickinson and Leav. The graphological features in the selected poems were also compared to find any significant similarities and differences between the styles of the two poets considering that they belong to different periods. Lastly, the graphological features were analyzed to know their possible effect on the meaning of the poems. As a result, archaism, eye dialect, unconventional use of em dash and capitalization, inconsistent number of lines in each stanza, and inconsistent number of words in each line were found in the selected poems of Dickinson while Leav's selected poems contain eye dialect, diacritics, minimal use of punctuation, absence of capitalization, italics, and the inconsistent number of words in each line of the poems. It was also revealed that their graphological features have more differences than similarities and the effect of these graphological features in the selected poems is mainly for emphasis and to add to the visual elements of the literary texts.

The article examines non-usual word formation in modern poetic discourse. The activation of occasional models of word creation in artistic contexts at the turn of the 20th and the 21st centuries is due to the fact that modern poetic language is characterized by such features as verbal experimentation, striving for maximum expression and creativity, and the search for new ways of nomination. The study is based on the poetic works of two famous modern poets – A. Levin and V. Strochkov. It has been established that these authors actively use occasional neo-derivatives in order to involve readers in a language game that implies deciphering the meanings hidden in the structure of the word. The individual authorial methods of word formation, such as substitution and contamination are shown to be used most actively. The cases of ambiguous interpretation of occasionalisms are determined; such cases are noted to be caused by the interaction of substitution and contamination both with each other and with traditional affixation. It is concluded that experiments with words characterize the original authorial manner of the poets A. Levin and V. Strochkov, reflect their personal attitude to extralinguistic reality. The study of non-usual models of word formation is of great practical significance, since their use activates certain mechanisms of the word formation system and stimulates its development.

The main subject of this paper is the lexical-semantic classification of water-related lexicon in the novel Most (Bridge) by Jasmina Musabegović. We will explain the stylistic expressiveness of selected water-related lexemes, as well as the way the author constructs her identity and the identities of her characters through the conceptualization of the experience of water. The water lexics are analysed as dominant in relation to other types of words and classified into eleven lexical-semantic fields. Total of 79 water nouns have been registered. As expected, the most common water-related lexemes are ‘voda’ and ‘most’. Three water nouns are described: voda, most and tihanj, and it is concluded that lexeme ‘water’ has an associative and symbolic role; lexeme ‘most’, as a strong position of the text, since it is also a title of the novel, represents change, a path and growing up. The nonce word tihanj has a specific cultural and linguistic meaning in the context of the novel.

The poem "أيا من يدعي الفهم" (O You Who Claims Understanding), created by Abu Muhammad Alqosim bin Ali al-Hariri, and later recited by the renowned qari’ Sheikh Mishary Rasyid, provoked various reactions among internet users. Hence, this research aims to analyze the stylistic elements of this poem. Qualitative descriptive methods and content analysis were employed in this study, collecting data through observation, note-taking, and purposive sampling techniques. The findings indicate that the poetic style creates effects such as enhancing faith, self-reflection, satire, and emotional impact. These effects are constructed through the following aspects: (1) phonological aspects, including the harmony of the rhyme at the end of verses and the use of specific rhythmic patterns (shawamit infijariyah and shawait qashirah); (2) Morphological aspects dominated by fi’il madhi and fi’il mudhari’, sarcastically criticizing individuals for their reprehensible actions, and fi’il amr and nahyi for advice and conclusion in the poem; (3) Syntactic aspects involving repetition and ellipsis for reinforcing and expanding on the subjects of criticism; (4) Semantic aspects employing unusual word meanings to captivate the audience's attention; and (5) Imagery aspects creating beauty and coherence through the use of assonance, alliteration, epithets, euphemisms, sarcasm, cynicism, and cause-and-effect coherence. The implications suggest that this work could serve as an alternative form of contemporary preaching (dakwah) and remains relevant in literary works within a modern context.

Literature is a medium of expressing what it is to be human and to feel human, and religious texts are one category of these expressions of humanity. Christian hymns mirror the right beliefs and right practices of their faiths. As such, this study analyzed where man roots and finds his source of worth and identity through selected contemporary hymns. The hymn "My Worth is not in what I own" and "I'd rather have Jesus" were selected using deliberate sampling. The paper utilized a descriptive qualitative design, and subjected the two hymns to both document analysis and thematic analysis, where several observations and interpretations have emerged. Based on the interpreted data, linguistic features show the dominance of the first-person pronouns and negation as effective devices in pointing the meaning and source of worth and identity. Literary devices such as comparison and rhyme also affect the rhythm and understanding of the hymns toward the discovery of one's identity and worth. The Searlean assertive, declarative, and expressive acts are found to be evident in the formation and discovery of one's worth and identity, in that there is assertion, redirection, and response to the newfound/expounded identity and worth. In conclusion, this study provides compelling evidence that material pursuits of the speaker in the two hymns are in no match and comparison to the grander scale of Jesus as ultimate source of identity, worth, pleasure and treasure. These findings have important implications that hymns do not only lay out spiritual and theological truths, but also individual and psycho-social aspects of meaning making of what it is to exist, what it is to be human, and why we exist. As such, this study contributes to our understanding of hymns. Overall, this research highlights the significance of analysis of hymns and suggests potential avenues for future investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current research aims to reveal the grammatical structures and their stylistic significance in one of the Andalusian prose products, represented in the imperatives of Zaraqusti (d.: 538 AH), through three axes, for example (syntactic parallelism - structural structure - conditional structure) based on the nominal and verbal sentences. Which are considered the main focal point for all grammatical structures, which created a continuity between the propositional text and the forum, according to a conversational style, such as a case of merging between these structures and stylistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Stylistic analysis in a literary research assists readers understand and appreciate the meaning of a text by inspecting language patterns and the interconnectedness between linguistics and literary interpretation. The selected poem from the children's novel, Mariel of Redwall is widely known for its author's intellectual fantasy composition. Despite this fact, the style and the pedagogical evidence of the text remains unexplored and therefore this study attempts to address this by intensive stylistic analysis through computational method and explores how these features can be utilized in a pedagogical context. This research employs a mixed method, where qualitative method to discover the stylistic elements at various levels and quantitative methods such as John Ure's lexical density and a computational linguistic tool, MAT to calculate the richness of language employed and to compute the type of genre and contextual intention of the poem respectively. The study identifies literary essence at graphological, phonological, morphological, and lexical level through stylistics. Using John Ure's lexical density, an accuracy of 39.8 is calculated to test the lexical competency. Through the application of MAT, the genre, types of narratives, and functions of the text are identified. Through the results from integrating literature and computational tool, this interdisciplinary research is proved to be a recommended effective pedagogical model for children in future. The research anticipates to contribute to the existing body of knowledge in stylistics and potential application of computing pedagogy in the field of literary and language acquisition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vesna Parun's poetry collection Vjetar Trakije was published in 1964. It is related to the Bulgarian part of Parun's civil and creative biography. It abounds in longer poems and miniatures united by Parun's poetics of Mediterraneanism and neosymbolism. As one of the stylistic markers of poetic speech in the poems' formation, we singled out the imaginative reflection that shapes parts, and sometimes entire poems. It is one of the points of poetic discourse, i.e. its content and style. In this paper, we will analyze reflection as an expression that is not as such represented in traditional theories of literature, but is derived from philosophy (Cassirer) and individual literary theoretical analyses (Freidenberg, Stamać). Its imaginative performance rests on pictorial syntax and semantics, and its meaning is based on the mental presentation of the subject world in the poem. We divide it by subject fields and content, and analyze it using literary stylistic procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aimed to analyze female existentialism in Helen Garner's "Monkey Grip" using a descriptive qualitative method. In this context, the data obtained were carefully reviewed, presented, and analyzed through stylistic analysis. The results showed that female existentialism was expressed in two patterns. Firstly, the female speech was similar to the male, accompanied by the open expression of sexual desires and male circle words. Secondly, female actions contained the feminine movement to overcome discrimination problems and interact with many males. The results showed that the female character was considered a feminist representative against male stereotypes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since the emergence of Hiplife as a musical genre in Ghana, it has enjoyed some scholarly attention, focusing primarily on issues pertaining to its evolution as a blend of Hip hop and Ghanaian Highlife genres, as well as how it employs linguistic resources involving code-switching and proverbs to comment on social issues. In this study, I approach the Ghanaian Hiplife genre from a stylistic perspective by focusing on the narrative perspectives Ghanaian Hiplife artistes use in conveying their messages to listeners. From the analysis, it was found that the artistes, in most cases, adopted the autobiographical, third-person and multi-perspectival narrative approaches where the narrator combined either the first-person or the third-person narrative technique. Also, the artistes used multimedia approaches, dialogue, cantor-response, and apostrophes in the songs. The study concludes that Hiplife artistes use traditional narrative perspectives as the initial tools and then adopt other narrative perspectives to be innovative, kill boredom and have lasting stylistic effects on listeners. The study provides a window for literary scholars to be more open to approaching literary analysis as modern creativity transcends the traditional purviews of point of view into more adoptive modes for stylistic effects.

This paper presents data that can help determine whether factors such as gender or age can become significant in authorship analysis through X in Catalan. Considering the principles of forensic linguistics (in particular, authorship analysis and idiolectal style), 500 publications have been analyzed from a stylistic point of view, focusing on three discursive aspects: specific features of X, pragmatic variables and stylistic variables. Contrary to what some authors have found for English X users (Cicres, 2015), the paper shows that, in Catalan, emoticons, exclamations or letter multiplication are not distinctive features for gender or age. However, elements such as the concatenation of hashtags, the use of links, the intensification of first-person subject pronouns, the use of capital letters or the use suspension points can be meaningful for age ¾but not for gender. This paper thus constitutes a first step towards finding truly distinctive elements in the use of X in Catalan, even though more studies, with larger corpora, need to be done to confirm these tendencies.

The monograph Landscape Aesthetics in Fine Arts in Moldova, Chișinău: CEP Publishing House, USM, 2024, second edition (first edition, 2021), is a work carried out within the Postdoctoral Program (2021-2022), Strategic Priority – Societal Challenges, with the theme: Morphological stylistics in interior design, architecture, fine arts in Moldova, with the project code 21.00208.0807.00/PD, authored by Angela Munteanu. The paper discusses the issue of the evolution and constitution of the landscape genre in the fine arts in Moldova. The monograph Landscape Aesthetics in Fine Arts in Moldova reflects the periods of evolution and development of the landscape genre through stylistic trends, representatives of different schools of painting, graphics, and decorative arts, and artistic currents, resulting in a truthful panorama of the artistic process in Moldova.

In the modern world of mass communication and rapid development of information technologies, media article headlines play an important role, performing the functions of attracting attention, interest, informing, and guiding the reader. Creating unique and effective headlines is a key task for authors, as successful headlines not only emotionally impact on the audience but also increase reader activity, promote search engine optimization, and determine the tone and context of the material. The study of phraseological units in the headlines of online publications is relevant due to their ability to convey complex ideas and emotions in a concise form. Phraseological units reflect the linguistic and cultural characteristics of a society; therefore, a comparative analysis of Ukrainian and Polish headlines allows for the identification of specific features and common trends in these cultures. The analysis of the use of phraseological units helps to understand the communicative strategies of journalists and editors, as well as contributes to the development of the theory of media broadcasting and the practice of creating headlines. The use of phraseological units in headlines stimulates innovation in both linguistic research and practical journalism. The purpose of this article is to conduct a linguistic and socio-communicative analysis of the use of phraseological units in the headlines of Ukrainian and Polish electronic media. The study was conducted using contextual, typological, and descriptive methods, as well as discourse analysis and content analysis. The sample consists of materials from Ukrainian and Polish electronic publications, which made it possible to identify common and distinctive features in the use of phraseological units. The results of the study demonstrate examples of headlines with phraseological models such as «verb + noun in an indirect case + adverbial modifier», «verb + preposition + noun», and others. Phraseological units in article headlines are a powerful tool that significantly affects readers’ perception of the material, demonstrating the richness of linguistic culture and the importance of emotional context in communication.

This study explores the impact of incorporating the stylistic method and diverse pedagogical approaches on students' understanding and appreciation of literary works, specifically focusing on the works of Charles Dickens. This research used a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative methods such as observation, surveys, and text analysis with quantitative methods involving statistical analysis. The quasi-experimental design selected undergraduate students purposively based on their literary background, with Charles Dickens' notable works serving as key resources. Pre and post-tests are administered to experimental and control groups to measure the impact of language style instruction. Results indicate that the experimental group, exposed to language style teaching, outperforms the control group in post-teaching comprehension tests. Studies show that teaching students about language styles helps them unlock the meaning of literature. Questionnaire data demonstrate high student satisfaction, increased confidence, improved critical thinking, and enhanced analytical abilities. The adaptability of Dickens's novels to various learning styles contributes to a more inclusive learning environment.

This paper aims to show how concepts and analytical methods of systemic functional linguistics can work congruently with other human practices to improve outcomes for those undergoing the suffering around loss of meaning and the absence of purposeful, self-directed experience. Based on a two-decade collaboration between linguists and psychotherapists in Sydney, Australia, and using the tools of text linguistics as developed by Michael A. K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan in systemic functional theory, the paper presents an indicative selection of intense exchanges between traumatized persons and therapists (centrally the experience of ‘Ruth’). The level by level linguistic descriptions of these exchanges offer opportunities for understanding how progress in the clinical interaction might be achieved. The descriptions can also be evaluated against the theoretical claims of psychotherapy in psychiatry – in particular, the emphasis of the Conversational Model of Psychotherapy developed in England and Australia by Robert Hobson and Russell Meares, whose characterization of disorders involves an emphasis on ‘co-ordination’ and ‘cohesion’ within frontal lobe activity of traumatized patients. In this way the paper also explores conceptual parallels and intellectual antecedents shared between the Conversational Model and Systemic Functional Linguistics, contributing to the broader intellectual history of the human sciences.

The paper explores the concept of multimodality in contemporary stylistics of virtual communication, mainly focusing on the process of interpretation. After outlining the basics of multimodal meaning-making theory, it further develops it by incorporating ideas from the theory of media or other related disciplines. The next part describes the of immersive potential of virtual environment, tying it to the multisensorial nature of human epistemic existence. Finally, the last part introduces these ideas to the process of stylistic interpretation, emphasizing the changes and problems, which multimodal virtual communication introduces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I demonstrate an approach fostering inventive interpretation of short stories in Literary Studies and higher education generally. It involves constructing an 'assemblage'—at its simplest, an evolving network of unusual connections for creative outcome. The assemblage of this article combines freshly located research literature, directly and indirectly related to a story's themes, and/or the personality type of protagonists. Importantly, this assemblage also utilizes text analysis software revealing the relatively invisible (e.g. (in)frequent words, parts of speech, and topics) and Large Language Model (LLM) Generative AI to enrich the interpretation. The use of all these elements helps productively exceed initial intuitions about the story, facilitating creativity. I model the approach using Edgar Allan Poe's short story, The Black Cat , whose protagonist is a homicidal psychopath. Specifically, the assemblage here includes relevant software-based research (a corpus analysis of homicidal psychopathic language), non-software-based research (psychoanalytical literary criticism of The Black Cat using the empirically validated concept of transference), text analysis software (WMatrix and Datayze), and the LLM Generative AI, 'ChatGPT' (using the freely available LLM GPT-3.5). One use of this approach is as a pedagogy in Literary Studies employing text analysis software (e.g. on a digital stylistics course). Yet given creative adaptability is a key 21st-century skill, with digital literacy—including the use of Generative AI—an important contemporary competence, and with the short story genre universally known, I highlight too the utility of this approach as a university-wide pedagogy for enhancing creative thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Stylistics, a sub-discipline of applied linguistics, examines the aesthetic aspects of language style within texts, particularly literary ones. While it is often used to explore the linguistic beauty of the Quran, it is less frequently applied to Prophetic Hadith texts. This study aims to analyse Hadiths that contain conversations between the Prophet and his companions, known as the Qauli Hiwari-type, related to exemplary practices (Afdhal al-‘amal), in Sahih Bukhari. Textual analysis was applied using phonosemantic analysis to examine letter combinations in words and ascertain their meanings related to these practices. The findings reveal five exemplary practices in the Prophet's Hadiths as narrated in Sahih Bukhari, hierarchically arranged to reflect their significance: belief in Allah SWT and His Messenger, and performing prayers punctually, which are fundamental to Islam, followed by kindness to parents, Jihad fi Sabillillah, and performing Hajj Mabrur, subject to individual limitations and capacities. This study demonstrates that phonosemantic stylistics can effectively analyze the linguistic style of religious texts, particularly in discerning meanings embedded in letter combinations, and shows that Hadith texts can be examined through stylistics with appropriate guidelines. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the linguistic nuances and religious teachings within the Hadiths of Sahih Bukhari. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay considers Laurence Sterne's sentences from a Lacanian point of view. My argument parallels the disordered utterances that drive the narrative of Sterne's novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and the framing of psychoanalysis. Its structure as a swarming address to an enigmatic, shifting listener (the essayistic digressions, evasions, and precisions that aren't precisions) recalls the disordered speech of a patient arriving in analysis with an unmanageable, disordering symptom; in the case of Shandy and Sterne, the ‘vile cough' of tuberculosis. Throughout many free-associative sessions, the patient maps out the undislodgeable hard pan of the symptom. By tuning in to areas of anxiety in discourse, the analysand becomes a kind of ‘artist of the symptom’, reappropriating and converting it from a source of disorder to an ordering principle - a sinthome, in Lacan's punning neologism. What cannot be cured must be enjoyed: this is precisely what the author-narrator dyad of Tristram Shandy manages, converting the narrator's cough into the motor of the novel's grammar, syntax, and punctuation; and making the novel the fencing piste for its author-narrator's duel with a symptom that can't be defeated, its distinctive dash being their shared rapier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay adopts a stylistic approach to delineate the various—and varying—pragmatic effects inherent in the use and interactions of pronouns in Ford's war prose. Ford's singular use of pronouns is shown to be instrumental in his practice of literary impressionism. In particular, the omnipresent second person is granted a variety of referents that coexist along a "continuum of reference" (as defined by Bettina Kluge), from a "you" that is speaker-oriented to one that is addressee-oriented. Sorlin's intersection of Kluge's continuum with a gradient from personalisation to generalisation (2022) is illuminating when examining the manifold significance of Ford's use of the second person, as it brings to light its ethical impact. Ford's war essays shift from the general to the particular and from the collective to the individual in a manner that opposes propaganda rhetorics. Furthermore, the gradient established by Sandrine Sorlin to account for the pragmatic effect of "you" also proves remarkably useful when applied to the pronoun "one". Scrutinising the interplay between these various pronouns allows us to investigate the multifarious relationships that Ford establishes in his war essays between the persona, the reader, those he often called "my men", and the collective ethos of wartime Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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AbstractThe dialectic book of "Aljavāhir Li- Maserrat-ul-Khavātir" is a mathnavi written in 759 verses on the jewels debate with each other to show their superiority. This work is composed by Basiri in his journey to Roman city on 907 Hejira calender. He presented it to Ottoman king Bäyazīd or his boy, king Mohammad. There is only one manuscript (No. 10143) of this book hold in Marāshi Najafi library. The text is handwritten by Nastaliq calligraphy with fantastic headlines and golded tabular pages. The present descriptive- analytical article was done by using of library references to, firstly, analyze the manuscript features and, then, describe its thematic, literal and linguistic style. Results showed that in respect of writing style, it follows the styles common on 10th and 11th centuries. Its thematic style involves debates or discussions on gemology, instructive and moral issues and the poet's life story. The author's ethical attitude and his life circumstances disclose some hidden aspects of his life. From a lexical viewpoint, it includes some new coined or less applicable words, as well as extensive using of gemology- related words. Homonymy, anagram, metonymy, simile, phonotactics, letterplay especially to prettify, reference to verses and poems of the precedent poets are some techniques used by the author to make his work tuneful and more affluent.

Investigations on kidungan, a form of traditional Javanese poetry, have been gaining momentum. However, there is a lack of comprehensive reports exploring the value of Javanese cultural wisdom in relation to social dimensions, symbolic politics, and educational values as reflected in kidungan. This study aims to address this gap by delving into the social dimension, symbolic politics, and educational value embedded in traditional Javanese poetry, specifically in kidungan ludruk. The research data for this study is sourced from ludruk performances broadcasted by Radi Republik Indonesia (RRI) East Java and expert interviews. The data collected were then analyzed using qualitative descriptive techniques, employing an ethnolinguistic research approach. The findings of this study revealed that ludruk kidungan serves as a social representation of traditional society, encompassing various aspects of social dimensions, symbolic politics, and educational values. An important implication of this study is that kidungan has the potential to contribute to the development of sustainable knowledge, particularly in the fields of culture, politics, and education.

Between analysis, revision and popularization. The history of literary theory according to Lubomír Doležel This study focuses on one of the most central leitmotifs in Lubomír Doležel’s lifetime work, the history of literary theory. This leitmotif offers an opportunity to follow the development of a substantial part of the work delivered by one of the most prominent theoreticians of Czech origin. Hence this leitmotif is followed from the author’s early involvement in analyses of contemporary and historic linguistic concepts, through his analyses of concepts based on the traditions of formalist and structuralist poetics and aesthetics, to his insights into post­modernist and post­structuralist theoretical issues. The study is based on the author’s studies and monographic works of which Occidental Poetics: Tradition and Progress, published in 1990, is the most highly acclaimed in the international context. All the concepts and terms used in the study are viewed and analysed in the broader context of the development of Doležel’s own theoretical work.

The article undertakes a conceptual analysis of the challenges associated with translating works from the Corpus Areopagiticum, a collection of theological treatises attributed to Dio­nysius the Areopagite from the 1st century. However, these works are unequivocally associat­ed with early medieval Eastern Christian mystical-theological thought, presumably from the turn of the 5th—6th centuries. These texts first appeared in the Slavic Orthodox area in 1370, and subsequent translations emerged at the end of the 17th century, in the 18th and 19th centuries, and, most recently, in contemporary times. The authors introduce a set of criteria that facilitate the differentiation of the analyzed texts into distinct types of text transmission, namely transposition, retelling, and translation. These criteria are founded on factors such as the dominant translation strategy, the approach to the source language, and the textual tradi­tion. The primary research methodology involves a diachronic analysis of linguistic material, employing comparative, stylistic, and textual analysis within the theolinguistic paradigm. The hypothesis posited in the article is substantiated based on empirical evidence. Moreover, the article draws conclusions regarding the impact of general linguistic changes on the nature of translations. This includes shifts in the role and status of the Church Slavonic language, the conditions contributing to the formation of a new literary language, and the inevitable influence of broader cultural and civilizational factors. The paper also explores the tradition of translating otherness, a practice that persists in contemporary times.

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.

It is possible to investigate how meaning is created in folkloric texts in a variety of ways, as well as how the values represented are shaped within the context of the meaning created. The folklore discourse can deal with stylistic concepts like foregrounding, repetition, deviation, and parallelism. The method under consideration is closely related to the cohesion and coherence of folklore discourse and, consequently, folkloric texts, and it aids in illuminating the functionality of folklore. In the context of folklore as discourse, cohesion essentially refers to the stylistic compatibility of folklore's (folkloric content) modes of expression. Contrarily, coherence refers to the use of the content in question in a manner that is consistent with one another in terms of usage and meaning. The study of the compatibility and relationships between signifier and signified in folkloric content belongs to the field of stylistics and calls for the use of stylistics-related data. According to this viewpoint, stylistic data can be used in a variety of fields, including folklore, as stylistics aids in highlighting the distinctive features of folklore content. Folklore has a discourse and a style within this discourse; an analysis of the style tends to show how the functions of the folklore's content are carried out. Exactly at this point, the connection between folklore and stylistics is established. Stylistic analysis of the relationship in question can be done on the textual (signifier) and contextual (and signified) levels. It is necessary to use stylistics data by modifying it for the field in order to study the relationship between folklore and stylistics on both the textual and contextual levels. From a semantic standpoint (since style creates meaning), it would be appropriate to assess the methodological data of stylistics related to language in folklore discourse in this regard. The establishment of a connection between meaning and style through the use of stylistic concepts from a semantic perspective enables the text to be analyzed on various (both signifier and signified) planes; naturally, this permits the concept of foregrounding to be used as a hypernym. Due to the way that foregrounding expresses the examination of a text on both the expression and content planes, it reveals how the meaning is produced in both the surface and the deep structure as well as how folkloric values are communicated. In the context of folklore discourse and folkloric texts, the concepts of cohesion of foregrounding and coherence of foregrounding can thus be positioned. Since the concepts of repetition and parallelism are essentially a part of foregrounding, the concept of coherence of foregrounding in the context of folklore enables the analysis of the form of expression of folklore through the concept of the form of expression. According to Bascom, this situation highlights the role that folklore plays in entertainment and education. On the other hand, the coherence of foregrounding activates the idea of the form of content by illustrating how folkloric values are expressed to one another as folkloremes and how meaning is created. At this point, stylistics reveals the intricate structure of the roles that affirm culture and uphold customary behavior. In this study, the fundamental ideas of stylistics were used in a semantic plane to show how meaning is produced in folkloric texts and the coherence of folkloric texts. Additionally, the logical relationship of folkloric values with each other in a formal plane and stylistically was analyzed. In this study, the logical relationships between folkloric values in a formal plane and stylistically were investigated, and the basic concepts of stylistics were used in a semantic plane to reveal how meaning is produced in folkloric texts and the coherence of folkloric texts. In this context, examples from folkloric texts such as folk songs, proverbs, and legends were selected and it was expressed how stylistic concepts could be used in folkloric texts, and the relationship between meaning and style was investigated within the folklore discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study explores the language used in reporting political headlines conducting a rhetorical stylistic analysis. It is based on showing the effect of the rhetorical stylistic relations in news reporting. The aim is to investigate the structure adopted in reporting political news. It argues that the rhetorical stylistic devices are necessary and applicable to non-literary texts, i.e. political headlines to evaluate language use in the representation of non-literary texts. The analysis was carried out on data selected from the British broadsheet The Guardian and the American New York Times newspaper headlines. The data were examined and subjected to a contrastive analysis incorporating rhetorical and stylistic tools to discern how they are united to achieve the main purpose of language use, i.e. to persuade and grasp the reader's attention. It was found that the two newspapers tend to employ sentence structures differently in terms of nucleus and satellite relations demonstrating the significant part in a sentence. Examples of the deviation strategy of foregrounding were primarily established in the New York Times to maintain the reader's attention about the content underlying the different strategy of the two newspapers to report war circumstances. The analysis shows that rhetorical devices and stylistic features are found and closely related in newspaper articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In literary criticism, both the context and the content of a given text; speech, graph, image, or picture are essential. It is the totality of these two elements that pave the way for a better understanding of any given text. Hence, since the purpose of every communication or speech act is comprehension, this study examines the stylistic profile of Wole Soyinka and Jean Pliya in The Lion and the Jewel (1964) and La secrétaire particulière (2001) respectively. The study adopts the French ‘explication de texte’ technique as its methodology to carry out a textual analysis of the two selected plays. As a theoretical framework, the study uses Edward Said and Homi Bhabha’s Postcolonial theory which interrogates the effects of the interactions between the centre and the margin with the view to reconstructing the worldview on matters of history, race, identity, and culture. Findings reveal that in resisting colonial domination and imposition, the two African playwrights take advantage of linguistic manipulations in the composition of their literary texts. With the application of transliteration, direct translation, proverbs, figures of speech, allusions, lexical borrowing, and grammatical and phonemic corruption, the writers are able to foreground their intention to postcolonialize and africanize their literary works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the article is to analyze the reproducts of the Russian language included in the posts of Polish Internet users written in Polish. In order to achieve the above goal, a total of over 400 texts containing metalinguistic operators were collected. The obtained results lead to the conclusion that phrasemes of Russian origin in most cases carry emotional and expressive connotations and are used for humorous purposes. The choice of linguistic means largely contributes to the consolidation of the negative stereotype of Russians in Poland, who are perceived as primitive, coarse, vulgar, stupid, backward and prone to alcohol abuse. The analyzed texts show a stereotypical image of Russians characteristic of posts written in the years 2012–2017. It can be assumed that in connection with the events of 2022, this image has changed significantly for the worse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]