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“The Rodney Dangerfield of Stylistic Devices”: End-to-End Detection and Extraction of Vossian Antonomasia Using Neural Networks [PDF]
Vossian Antonomasia (VA) is a well-known stylistic device based on attributing a certain property to a person by relating them to another person who is famous for this property.
Michel Schwab +2 more
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La donna nel Medioevo, impura per antonomasia?
In the Middle Ages, woman often passes for a model of impurity, both physical for her cycle and moral as a daughter of Eve; Leviticus was full of prescriptions on the need to purify the body after the expulsion of bodily flows such as blood, during ...
Laurence Moulinier-Brogi
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ON THE FUNCTIONS OF ANTONOMASIA IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE
Political discourse carried out with powerful linguistic and extralinguistic means is utterly linked with the usage of antonomasia. In fact, it is the language of politicians used as a tool to manipulate the audience.
Ofelya Poghosyan, Varduhi Ghumashyan
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Metaphor, metonymy and the nounness of proper names
Proper names are generally considered as a specific category of nouns. Research may focus on their specificities, but also, in the opposite perspective, on what they share with common nouns.
Pierre J.L. Arnaud
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The study of antonomasia, which is in fact a double trope since there are antonomasia of proper name and antonomasia of common name, could imply the existence of a system of the proper name based on positions and organized around a prototype, the ...
Nicolas Laurent
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This article is dedicated to the analysis of the linguistic means that influenced image development of the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the run-up and during the first year in office.
Elizaveta S. Goncharova
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Functional stylistics and vertical context
Compared to the philological disciplines of general systematic nature functional stylistics and the studies of vertical context are relatively young and underdeveloped: the definitions of the disciplines in question are there, but the details have either
A. A. Lipgart, O. D. Vishnyakova
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This article is composed of two parts. In the first, the Scottish genre of flyting, whose main purpose was to humiliate the opponent, is situated in the context of the Anglo-Saxon cultural and literary tradition.
Dominika Ruszkiewicz
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This article aims to enlighten on the situation of people who bore the nicknames Threptus and Trophimus under the Principate. Imported from the Greek nouns θρεπτος and τρόφιμος, the two cognomina arise from a ...
Gaëlle Perrot
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Ancient rhetoric as a hermeneutical tool for the analysis of characterization in narrative literature [PDF]
This article argues that the conceptualization of the notions of character and characterization in ancient rhetorical treatises can serve as a hermeneutical tool for the analysis of characterization in narrative literature.
De Temmerman, Koen
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