Search results for "Stylistics"
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An analysis of cohesion in a popular music recording : Tori Amos's "Me and a gun", in its articulations of textual subjectivity
2002
Victim-Naming in the Murder Mystery Series Twin Peaks: A Corpus-Stylistic Study
2020
Corpus linguistics is advancing rapidly in the study of a wide variety of genres, but is still at its infancy in the study of TV series, a genre daily consumed by millions of viewers. Murder mystery series are one of the most popular and proliferous, but no studies, to date, have used corpus-stylistics methodologies in the analysis of the pivotal character of the victim in the whole narrative. This paper applied this methodology hoping to shed some light on the quantitative and qualitative relationship between the participation roles of the characters, and the frequency and distribution of victim-naming choices in the dialogue of the two first seasons of the acclaimed TV series Twin Peaks. …
Traducir a Shakespeare : la palabra del actor
2017
En este artículo ofrecemos algunas de las reflexiones que desde hace años nos suscita nuestra experiencia en el proceso de traducción —al castellano y al catalán, a la página y a la escena— de los textos teatrales del dramaturgo inglés. La traducción de Shakespeare es una actividad fundamentada en la conciencia estética, dramatúrgica, escénica, fonoestilística, lingüística, bibliotextual, cultural, ideológica, del texto objeto de trabajo. Tomamos decisiones de traducción en función del valor que atribuimos al texto de partida, de los recursos y posibilidades que nos ofrece nuestro idioma, del contexto en que se utilizará el texto meta, de nuestras ideas sobre lo que es una buena traducción,…
Traduccions i usos sintàctics de l'expressió de l'abstracció
2007
En aquesta recerca, el model de llengua de les traduccions esdevé un element cabdal a l'hora d' explicitar les variables que conjuminen precisament aquestes normes traductores. Un dels components de la norma literaria en traducció es fa palmari amb l'analisi de les qüestions més controvertides al si de la gramatica, en la mesura que aquestes poden condicionar l’elecció estilística del traductor. Seguint aquests criteris, hem de convenir que l’expressió de l’abstracció, i, la seua relació amb l'anomenat «article neutre», ha estat una d’aquestes qüestions controvertides en la sintaxi catalana. Així doncs, analitza aquelles estructures que des d'un punt de vista interpretatiu correspondrien al…
E-learning and language and style in Mainz and Münster
2006
This article reports on how online Language and Style was implemented and taught simultaneously and cooperatively at two German universities in the summer semester of 2004, in the English departments of the universities of Mainz (Patricia Plummer) and Münster (Beatrix Busse). In order to compare different learning and teaching styles, one-third of the course was taught in a traditional seminar-style mode while two-thirds consisted of online workshops. The authors cooperated extensively during the project, assessing and evaluating students’ responses and performances both quantitatively and qualitatively. This article focuses on (1) the place of e-learning and stylistics in our departments …
Kind Kit Marlow –or Marely or Merlin: A reading of Anthony Burgess's A dead man in Deptford through the naming conventions applied in the novel
2010
The main concern of my thesis is to provide an account of the stylistic idiosyncrasies observed in the naming of the characters in Anthony Burgess's post-modernist historical novel A Dead Man in Deptford (Vintage, 1994), with special reference to the names applied to its protagonist, the Elizabethan poet and dramatist Christopher Marlowe. The interest in naming is occasioned by the salience given to personal names, defined as proper names borne by human or anthropomorphised nominata. Their prominence is the result of two things. First, some names in the novel display a marked tendency to change form so that the same name appears under a variety of spellings, notably the protagonist's family…
Estilo y autoría en la información. Una aparente ausencia de identidad
2009
Dolors.Palau@uv.es Los textos periodísticos son un reflejo de los diversos estilos, de la diversidad de formas de ver y construir la realidad de los periodistas que los elaboran. Más allá de la prescripción y las posturas acríticas que han presidido la reflexión sobre estas cuestiones, este artículo aboga por un análisis que saque a la luz los mecanismos lingüísticos en los que se refleja el punto de vista, las estrategias que subyacen a una aparente ausencia de identidad, a una autoría pretendidamente enmascarada. Para ello parte de una revisión pluridisciplinar de los conceptos de estilo y autor, antes de proponer y aplicar un método de análisis pragmaestilístico. Journalistic articles ar…
Corpus Stylistics and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: (De-)constructing the Spirit of the Soul
2019
Corpus Stylistics is an emerging field in the discipline of Linguistics which has become increasingly popular during the last decades: applying corpus methods and techniques to the stylistic analysis of literary texts seems to be a successful way of making linguistic evidence, style ornamentations, aesthetic choices, manners of expressions or deviations from language norms, more visible to the eyes of the traditional literary critic or, simply, the reader. Reading A Portrait of the Artist as a young Man by James Joyce becomes challenging again if we find new lexical, grammatical patterns and structural features that serve as evidence for our critical hypotheses. Easily and rapidly processed…
Openings and closings in Spanish email conversations
2011
Abstract Despite the increasing interest scholarly research has shown in the study of computer-mediated communication, there is still a need to investigate the empirical validity of assumed homogeneity of language usage over the net and focus on the social diversity and variation that characterizes any communication. With this in mind, the present paper is an investigation into the stylistic choices that a particular group of email users made when engaged in a specific activity type. More specifically, it explores the variation in the discourse practices employed to open and close emails in conversation alongside the institutional power of participants and the interactional position of each…