The growing number of recent publications on pedagogical stylistics indicates that this area is still of much interest to those who invest in the integration of language and literature. However, evidencebased assessments of pedagogical stylistics are still few and depend mostly on teachers’ intuitions. The present study contributes towards filling this gap by examining 28 reflective accounts pr...

This study explores the textual characteristics, more precisely the quantity and diversity of nouns, of Japanese prime ministers' Diet addresses. In the field of stylistics, textual characteristics independent of the content have been examined with the aim on detecting the authors, genres, and chronological variations of texts. This study focuses instead on textual characteristics related to th...

Notwithstanding the differences displayed by drama criticism for what concerns the theoretical stance and the aims, the key role played by emotions seems to be a common aspect to most definitions of drama. Although the field of computational drama has acknowledged this trend, we argue that the role of emotions in character design deserves more attention, as it is the key to establish a distinct...

Objective: Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) causes severe damage to children’s social skills, cognitive functions, and emotional self-regulation. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of drama therapy on the social skills of children with high functioning autism. Methods: The research design was experimental with a pre-test, post-test, and a control group. The statistical p...

This paper argues that corpus stylistics can contribute methodologies and concepts to support the investigation of character information in fiction. Focusing on Charles Dickens, the paper looks at lexicogrammatical patterns as well as places in the literary text. It suggests that clusters, i.e. repeated sequences of words, and suspensions, i.e. interruptions of charactersÿ speech by the narrato...

Forensic linguistics provides answers to four categories of inquiry in investigative and legal settings: (i) identification of author, language, or speaker; (ii) intertextuality, or the relationship between texts; (iii) text-typing or classification of text types such as threats, suicide notes, or predatory chat; and (iv) linguistic profiling to assess the author’s dialect, native language, age...

In the article, specificity of modelling personage’s fictional consciousness in M. Irchan’s drama “Radium” is determined by using a cognitive method, which makes it possible to trace internal transformations characters through prism analysis dramatic conflict. The relevance study use tools literary studies, represented significant number works belonging Ukrainian (Bovsunivska, 2010; Grebenyuk, ...

layered stylistics is a sub-branch of stylistics. In stylistics, considering the situational context as macro-layer, researchers break down text into strata and study style by examining identifying prominent or frequent features. This type can be considered most complete accurate methods in stylisitcs. Due to large number manuscripts obtained from Hossein Kharazmi’s Divan, authors use stylistic...

Recent years have seen growing interest in data-driven approaches to personalized interactive narrative generation and drama management. Reinforcement learning (RL) shows particular promise for training policies to dynamically shape interactive narratives based on corpora of player-interaction data. An important open question is how to design reinforcement learning-based drama managers in order...