This paper is situated within the debate between “specialist” and “generalist” methods of analysis in the study of world literature. It is argued that a systemic linguistic discourse analysis of appropriately encoded text passages can provide a methodology which can be utilised to interrogate the national and international demarcations of comparative literary analysis. A case study consisting o...

There are cultural barriers to collaborative effort between literary scholars and computational linguists. In this work, we discuss some of these problems in the context of our ongoing research project, an exploration of free indirect discourse in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, ultimately arguing that the advantages of taking each field out of its “comfort zone” justifies the inherent diff...

the early twentieth-century nationalist discourse in iran reviled, on the one hand, a qajar hegemony on account of an exhausted “manifest destiny,” and lauded, on the other, a discourse of masculinity that assumed moral responsibility to protect the imaginary “geobody” of iran. in this paper i examine how this discourse of patriotism resonates through mehdi akhavan-sales’s poem “this autumn in ...

Literature and Cognition applies methods and ideas from computational linguistics and cognitive science to literature. It explores a wide range of topics, and is intended to be read by literary theorists as well as by computational linguists and cognitive scientists. From the perspective of computational linguistics, the largest contributions are to present Hobbs's previously published theory o...

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Abstract The aim of the article is to present a study literary text from discursive perspective focusing on development discourse competence in English language. It new approach EFL methodology which highlights relation between holistic understanding comunication, social phenomena and language structures their use. European educational policies favour as key factor boosting students' communicat...