Every good piece of writing, fictional or otherwise is marked by a introduction. This initial part the primary provider reader’s first impression that sustains reading. The introduction as well other parts written spoken text essentially realized through specially selected language. In prose fiction, special selections and patterns are hallmarks. paper explores devices style deployed Usman in c...

A Corpus Linguistic Analysis The observation that individuals who read more have better verbal abilities is among one of the most robust findings in reading research. For example, a meta-analysis of 99 studies revealed moderate to strong correlations between reading, measured as lifetime print-exposure several different indices of linguistic competence (Mol & Bus, 2011). (As with all correlatio...

In this paper we describe a process called Diegetic Innovation Templating (DiT) whereby science fiction and fantasy stories are used as a systematic source of ideas for design and product innovation. We also introduce a concept called the Diegetic Gap which acts a metric for assessing how compatible a particular piece of fiction is to a given innovation space. We illustrate the Diegetic Innovat...

THISARTICLE PRESENTS A BIBLIOGRAPHY of 136 works of fiction, published in English, which feature deaf characters. It is divided into sections: novels for adult readers (fifty-six entries), short stories (thirtynine entries), fiction-young adults and older children (twenty-five entries), and books for young children (sixteen entries). Drama and poetry are not included. To aid in collection devel...

This paper is an introduction to the short story and science fiction prototype The Machinery of Love and Grace. We cover a brief overview of the goals of science fiction prototyping as well as an example for how both Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud used a very similar process to achieve greatness in their work. Finally we look into the specific science behind the story The Machinery of Love a...