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Comics is rapidly developing into a scholarly discipline in its own right, with a growing output of books, journals, and conferences. Two practitioners have been crucial influences. Eisner (1985) and McCloud (1993, 2000, 2006) have done much to aid the understanding of how comics create meaning.
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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 ...
Jussi Karlgren, Troy Straszheim
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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World Englishes and applied linguistics: Theoretical and applied perspectives
Abstract This article examines the evolving relationship between world Englishes (WE) and applied linguistics (AL), tracing AL's historical development from its Anglo‐American origins in the mid‐20th century, grounded in “linguistics applied” to its contemporary status as a multidisciplinary field concerned with social justice and equity. It highlights
Kingsley Bolton
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AbstractThis article focuses on Middleton' style. More than Shakespeare or Jonson, Middleton was a writer of works for the printing press – works commissioned by publishers rather than theatres, whose initial reception would be in the visual form of the printed page.
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Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the ...
Alison K. Brown
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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From a Stylistic Angle: Methodological Issues and Liminal Creativity
Stylistics can be said to borrow tools from one well-established discipline (linguistics) and step on the disciplinary toes of another (literature).
Sandrine Sorlin
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The article intends to justify the use of the concept of “style” in a medieval corpus, which involves, on the one hand, proposing a definition that can support an epistemologically sound approach to texts and, on the other hand, verifying that this ...
Yannick Mosset
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Razdioba konstitutivnih parametara za strukturni nacrt poetskog stila [PDF]
In this paper we offer structural draft of poetic style which is based on three descriptive parametars. These are lyrical subject, poetic text and metaphore.
Tin Lemac
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