naqib al-mamalek shirazi, the court storyteller of naser al-din shah, has composed two tales: amir arsalan and malek jamshid. naqib created amir arsalan for naser al-din shah and retold it to him frequently, but he composed malek jamshid in a different condition. this essay attempts to study stylistic differences between the two texts. the goal is to show the role of textural factors and the ci...

In this paper we present a new approach to controlling the behaviour of a natural language generation system by correlating internal decisions taken during free generation of a wide range of texts with the surface stylistic characteristics of the resulting outputs, and using the correlation to control the generator. This contrasts with the generate-andtest architecture adopted by most previous ...

Politeness strategies are of significant importance to maintain the face addressee. Senders formal congratulatory letters seek create a positive image in minds their addresses by performing particular illocutionary acts and face-saving (FSAs) form written texts. To best knowledge researcher, this topic received little attention from linguistic researchers, especially on pragma-stylistic level. ...

The article examines the peculiarities of use stylistic devices in novel “Where Crawdads Sing” by American writer Delia Owens and their reproduction Ukrainian translation. Stylistic means are an integral part fiction they possess metaphoric meaning, emotional features that help convey author’s idea. functioning aspect metaphor simile were clarified. It was also found peculiarity is presence a n...

The article is devoted to the description of main types and stylistic potential allusive elements in novel “Chocolat” by contemporary British author Joanne Harris. Allusion as a device considered context theory intertextuality interpreted one leading methods reproducing "another voice" literary text. concludes that allusion distinguished conscious use requires unambiguous understanding interpre...

Formulations of the essential commitment of the etiological theory of functions have varied significantly, with some individual authors’ formulations even varying from one place to another. The logical geography of these various formulations is different from what is standardly assumed; for they are not stylistic variants of the same essential commitment, but stylistic variants of two non-equiv...

Writing style allows NLP tools to adjust to the traits of an author. In this paper, we explore the relation between stylistic and syntactic features and authors’ age and income. We confirm our hypothesis that for numerous feature types writing style is predictive of income even beyond age. We analyze the predictive power of writing style features in a regression task on two data sets of around ...

Intrinsic plagiarism detection is a sub-task of authorship identification in which outlier chunks must be detected solely on the basis of stylistic differences from the main body of the text. We present a first attempt at utilizing words that appear infrequently in a text as stylistic markers for distinguishing outlier chunks in the text. In the first phase of our method we cluster chunks of te...