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Stylistic Motivation in Amharic Media Language Use
This article looked into the stylistic motivations of English words used in Amharic media. It used the qualitative descriptive approach to examine the data of this research so as to be able to investigate the stylistic motivation of language ...
A.M. Mekonnen, E. Hussien
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Seeking systematicity in variation : theoretical and methodological considerations on the “variety” concept [PDF]
One centennial discussion in linguistics concerns whether languages, or linguistic systems, are, essentially, homogeneous or rather show “structured heterogeneity.” In this contribution, the question is addressed whether and how sociolinguistically ...
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Dipolar Dark Matter and Dark Energy [PDF]
In previous work [L. Blanchet and A. Le Tiec, Phys. Rev. D 78, 024031 (2008)], a model of dark matter and dark energy based on the concept of gravitational polarization was investigated.
A. Lichnerowicz +4 more
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Analyzing Stylistic Variation Across Different Political Regimes
In this article we propose a stylistic analysis of texts written across two different periods, which differ not only temporally, but politically and culturally: communism and democracy in Romania. We aim to analyze the stylistic variation between texts written during these two periods, and determine at what levels the variation is more apparent (if any)
Dinu, Liviu P., Uban, Ana-Sabina
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Probing the topological properties of complex networks modeling short written texts [PDF]
In recent years, graph theory has been widely employed to probe several language properties. More specifically, the so-called word adjacency model has been proven useful for tackling several practical problems, especially those relying on textual ...
Amancio, Diego R.
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Linguistic Inventiveness, Creativity, and Variation in Taufiq Rafat’s Poems: A Stylistic Study
The current study attempted to analyze the poetic style of Taufiq Rafat. The study focused on Rafat's poetic originality, uniqueness, and grammatical inconsistencies.
Muhammad Haroon Jakhrani
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Personal style and epistemic stance in classroom discussion [PDF]
This article reports on an analysis of stance-taking in the university classroom, examining how students position themselves in relation to academic knowledge through the epistemic phrases I don’t know and I think.
Kirkham, Sam
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Stylistic variation in children’s vowel production [PDF]
The monophthongization of the diphthong [ai] to [a] is possibly the most stereotyped feature of Southern American English. This feature can be observed to varying degrees across the American South. Although monophthongization represents an important social symbol in the South, its pervasiveness has begun to recede in recent generations.
Ewa Jacewicz +2 more
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Redefining Neutrality in Language and Discourse
This paper explores some aspects of functional stylistics with relation to discourse analysis. The basis of every stylistic research is the identification of a set of linguistic elements that determine stylistic variation in a context of speech.
Marklen E Konurbaev
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Evaluating prose style transfer with the Bible [PDF]
In the prose style transfer task a system, provided with text input and a target prose style, produces output which preserves the meaning of the input text but alters the style.
Carlson, Keith +2 more
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