this paper examines the stylistics of the ‘arafa supplication in terms of their acoustic and phonetic levels. this supplication has a unique and consistent texture. the acoustic features of the words and sentences and the repetition of some sounds, words and phrases and acoustic syllables, as well as literary devices such as rhyme and paronomasia tend to increase the rhythm of speech. in fact, ...

If sophisticated natural language systems are to handle the full range of communication, then they must be able to account for the nuances and subtleties of linguistic style. A computational treatment of style would be highly advantageous to natural language understanding and generation, with particular relevance to intelligent computer-assisted language instruction and machine translation. The...