creativeness / a pleasing field / of bloom Word associations are an important element of linguistic creativity. Traditional lexical knowledge bases such as WordNet formalize a limited set of systematic relations among words, such as synonymy, polysemy and hypernymy. Such relations maintain their systematicity when composed into lexical chains. We claim that such relations cannot explain the typ...

We collect 14 representative corpora for major periods in Chinese history in this study. These corpora include poetic works produced in several dynasties, novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and essays and news reports written in modern Chinese. The time span of these corpora ranges between 1046 BCE and 2007 CE. We analyze their character and word distributions from the viewpoint of the Zipf...

mowlavi’s sonnets have been repeatedly and from different points of views analyzed by several famed literary characters. considering the structure and features of sonnet, as a poetic form, and its evolution course, it seems that mowlavi is offering a new version of narrative sonnet – the issue had been paying attention by attar and sanaie before him. ‘what measures and techniques had mowlavi us...

The article offers generalizing data concerning the system of rhetorical techniques used by A.D.Kantemir in small and medium-sized poetic genres. practice Kantemir is compared with recommendations from treatises Feofan Prokopovich De arte poetica rhetorica libri X, use various devices certain literary genres styles. hypothesis work assumption synthetic nature syllable Antiochus Kantemir, which ...

The aim of this article is an attempt to classify the works Mirosław Czyżykiewicz – outstanding guitarist, composer and vocalist, one most valued performers poetic song sung poetry in Poland; question validity division into above-mentioned genres existing scientific discourse. As it turns out, bard’s original work eludes previously known typology, according which both these varieties are treate...

We hypothesize that different genres of writing use different adjectives for the same concept. We test our hypothesis on lyrics, articles and poetry. We use the English Wikipedia and over 13,000 news articles from four leading newspapers for the article data set. Our lyrics data set consists of lyrics of more than 10,000 songs by 56 popular English singers, and our poetry dataset is made up of ...

This paper describes a corpus of about 3,000 English literary texts with about 250 million words extracted from the Gutenberg project that span a range of genres from both fiction and non-fiction written by more than 130 authors (e.g., Darwin, Dickens, Shakespeare). Quantitative narrative analysis (QNA) is used to explore a cleaned subcorpus, the Gutenberg English Poetry Corpus (GEPC), which co...

In this paper, a new approach was employed to investigate the relationship between written Chinese and spoken Chinese. In a pilot study, how Chinese native speakers handle written style materials was investigated and compared with Chinese L2 learners. Preliminary findings reveal that both groups are aware of the variation of written levels in different genres. However, the written elements sele...

In an attempt to discover the poetic, theatrical, and dramatic aspects of al-Hur Arriyahi by Abdul-Razzaq Abdul-Wahid, researcher endeavors explore genre this literary work in addition explaining how poetic theatrical structures can harmonize. The also inquires whether is appropriate for stage or, like rest genres; it just authored reading. surveys infrastructure each those genres which synergi...