Stylometry is usually concerned with finding an authorial invariant, and attempts at authorship identification often model authors based on topics, putting weight on consciously selected content words and their unconsciously controlled frequency. This paper presents two uses of stylometry that rely on factors beyond the control of the author: document dating to a given historical period by dete...

Metadiscourse is now a widely used term in academic discourse analysis. How academics employ rhetorical devices to structure their texts, establish reader-writer interaction and stamp authorial stance regarding the conventions of disciplines, cultures, genres has been subject many studies. Despite growing prominence term, however, some features it, one which frame markers, have gone unnoticed. ...

For centuries, readers have had great difficulty in attributing various works to the polygraph Charles Sorel. From Jean-Pierre Nicéron in the eighteenth century (1344) to Antoine-Alexandre Barbier (q.v.) and Émile Roy in the nineteenth (402-424), critics strove to establish a referential relationship between Sorel, the man, and the contradictory manifestations of authorial voice in his various ...

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an enormous stream of information. Parascientific digital communication pursued different avenues, from mainstream media news to social networking, at times combined. Likewise, citizens have developed new discourse practices, with readers as active participants who claim authority. Based on a corpus 500 reader comments Guardian, we analyse how build th...

Using Lady Caroline Lamb as a case study, this essay models book historical approach to the author function and introduces concept of recuperative materiality—repairing one’s reputation through circulation material objects. It resituates within broad media context highlights her diverse creative output in sheet music, literary annuals, illustrations children’s books, an account book. These obje...

In this article, I analyse the “publish or perish” enterprise and in particular the origins of editorial power/knowledge. My actor-network analysis shows how tenure, promotion, and salary decisions apparently unrelated to editorial decisions are important elements that accrue power/knowledge to editors of particular journals. What my actor-network analysis does not show, and which I therefore a...