The overall goal of this book is to specify the kinds of psychological mechanisms that support the comprehension of narrative. In this chapter, we lay the basis for examining these mechanisms in the rest of the book. An initial question for any approach has to be: what is narrative? As we shall see, there are many opinions about this, but it is possible to specify a relatively simple set of bas...

We present a computational system for morphological analysis and annotation of the Qur’an, for research and teaching purposes. The system facilitates a variety of queries on the Qur’anic text that make reference not only to the words but also to their linguistic attributes. The core of the system is a set of finite-state based rules which describe the morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic ph...

Most work on neural natural language generation (NNLG) focus on controlling the content of the generated text. We experiment with controlling several stylistic aspects of the generated text, in addition to its content. The method is based on conditioned RNN language model, where the desired content as well as the stylistic parameters serve as conditioning contexts. We demonstrate the approach o...

This paper might be described as an attempt to discuss a practical methodology based on Pedagogic Stylistic approach for the teaching of literature as subject in undergraduate /Post graduate classes in India. It is also significant that we need to examine how a stylistic approach for the teaching of literature is of particular value for the study of literature as a subject in India's ESL situat...

The Trlcon program has been adapted as an aid to the analysis of syntax in poetry with the hope of identifying the dominant patterns that characterize a poet's style. The Trlcon program (described in Concordances from Com~ , S.M.Lamb and L.Gould, University of Callf0~nia, ey,1964)has three active lines which this researcher has used for text, syntactic analysis (following a phrase-str~cture gra...

This paper a) examines the nature of creative thinking in musical improvisation, b) examines music teachers 'confidence in their inprovisation abilities and c) proposes a model for teaching stylistic improvisation. First, factor analysis of improvisations of college jazz singers indicates that divergent thinking, as exemplified through variety, originality and elaboration of musical ideas, is l...

This study deals with one of the most important stylistic phenomena in modern poetry; it is phenomenon semantic deviation, as a form deviation general. The defines term and its meaning, then gives an overview two poets - subject namely "Salah applied Abdel-Sabour" “Naguib Sorour”, models on which choice due to fact that they have uniqueness makes them ideal model for applying deviation. poetry ...

Stylistic animation and rendering approaches intentionally produce output that diverges from physical reality in order to enhance the quality of graphical output. In this paper, we discuss the domain of stylistic animation, with particular emphasis on techniques for stylising dynamics and motion synthesis. We present a survey of previous work and introduce some of the major issues in stylised a...

Introduction We are currently conducting systematic analyses of Japanese prime ministers’ Diet addresses after World War II. In addition to the analyses of the content of the addresses, stylistic analysis can be used to clarify the changing language usages of prime ministers and how these reflect their personal or individual styles. This study indicates that stylistic methods are useful for his...

As a functional type of writing style, English for science and technology is developed on the basis of the General English. This paper is to analyze the stylistic features of English for science and technology— The Science of Mechanics in four aspects: graphlogical level, lexical level, and syntactical/grammatical level.