PUBLICIST STYLE OF UKRAINIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE:FUNDAMETNTALS, COMMUNICATIVE-PRAGMATIC SIGNS, FUNCTIONS

Aesthetic Symbolic and Communicative Functions of English Signs in Urban Spaces of Jordan: Typography, Multimodality, and Ideological Values

This study examines the visual aesthetic function of English signs in line with ethnographic approaches as a means of achieving various symbolic and communicative implications in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Jordan. Having coded the data in 6 urban streets of the major Jordanian cities, the social semiotic analysis centers on the visual layout of signs based on the typographical features of...

Literary Philosophy: The Anatomy of Philosophical Style

Rank-Frequency Analysis for Functional Style Corpora of Ukrainian

We use the rank–frequency analysis for the estimation of Kernel Vocabulary size within specific corpora of Ukrainian. The extrapolation of high-rank behaviour is utilized for estimation of the total vocabulary size.

Charles Sanders Peirce’s Theory of Signs, Meaning, and Literary Interpretation

Despite 9/11, “United We Stand,” and the USA Patriot Act, it seems that we are still afflicted by logocentrism and essentializing metanarratives. Decades of inoculation by deconstructive serums—first introduced by Jacques Derrida’s 1966 lecture at Johns Hopkins University entitled “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”—have failed to immunize us, readers and scholars...

Classification of Literary Style that takes Order into Consideration

The statistical analysis of the heterogeneity of the style of a text often leads to the analysis of contingency tables of ordered rows. When multiple authorship is suspected, one can explore that heterogeneity through either a change-point analysis of these rows, consistent with sudden changes of author, or a cluster analysis of them, consistent with authors contributing exchangeably, without t...