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Social Mechanisms of Musical Stylistic Change: A Case Study from Early 20th-Century France
This study examined notated meter changes in scores by French composers to probe the role of sociological mechanisms in musical stylistic change.
Jane Harrison
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PRESENTATION of SPECIAL ISSUE: Variation and Change in Language Norms in Languages
This Special Issue (SI) sheds light on the relationship between geographical, sociocultural, historical, functional, or stylistic variation and language norms, understanding by these both objective implicit social habits and prescriptive explicit ...
Carla Amorós-Negre, Joan Costa-Carreras
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Visualizing stylistic variation
Texts vary not only by topic, but by style; indeed, often the variation between texts 'about the same thing' can be just as noticeable as the variation between texts 'about different things'. Some facets of this variation are quite easy to detect, and quite predictable when applied to categorization of texts by genre, functional style, or-tentatively ...
Karlgren, Jussi, Straszheim, Troy
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Textroutinen und Fokussierungsverfahren [PDF]
As a rule, scientific texts have the reputation of having a particularly clear and well-considered structure. It can therefore be assumed that a characteristic selection of text-organizing signals can be found here.
Heinz-Helmut Lüger
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Stylistic variation in multilingual instructions [PDF]
Instructional texts have been the object of many studies recently, motivated by the increased need to produce manuals (especially multilingual manuals) coupled with the cost of translators and technical writers. Because these studies concentrate on aspects other than the linguistic realisation of instructions -- for example, the integration of text and
Cécile Paris, Donia Scott
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In case of recent global and social changes, academic fields under language and communication pay their interests in various forms of translation, for instance, official text.
Devi Annisa Marpaung +2 more
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Stylistic repertoires and strategies of 10/11 year-old primary school children
Once considered an essentially reactive phenomenon, stylistic variation is now viewed as a distinct verbal strategy. Recent sociolinguistic research has regarded style as a favored means of self-presentation that is closely linked to the speaker’s ...
Laurence Buson, Jacqueline Billiez
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Engendering Linguistic Variation in Literary Prose via Scientific Discourse
Scientific discourse is characterized by the prevalence of assertive linguistic acts denoting facts devoid of fiction. It is mainly used in scholarly writings to serve scientific, technical or didactic objectives.
Rahmouna Zidane
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Why DO dove: Evidence for register variation in Early Modern English negatives [PDF]
The development of “supportive” (or “periphrastic”) DO in English suffered a curious and sharp reversal late in the 16th century in negative declaratives and questions according to Ellegård's (1953) database, with a recovery late in the following century.
Anthony Warner +3 more
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Jonction syntaxique et formalité du contexte
Context is a continuously changing reality in a verbal exchange. In this article, an analysis is made of how intraspeaker variation functions as a contextualisation cue in situations marked by different degrees of formality, through a study of clause ...
Anne‑Marie Bezzina
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