Search results for "stylistics"

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. …

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…

Instead of an Editorial: Mission Statements by Representatives of Both Fields

2012

The following mission statements by linguists and literary scholars working in different institutional and cultural contexts and at different stages of their careers are intended to map out the terrain covered by this journal. They tell similar stories about how these scholars came to cross the disciplinary boundary that too often divides their two fields, and they reveal a number of shared interests and emphases. But they also highlight the diversity of methodologies to which this journal is open – from metrics and stylistics to the cognitive sciences and Systemic Functional Grammar. The hopes and expectations voiced by the authors are partly pragmatic, expressing the wish that the journal…

Languages and New Technologies: Learning Digital Portfolio in the Stylistics of English

2016

The new perspective of the European Higher Education Area involves new methodologies which foster the information and communication technologies (ICTs). Educating (i.e. teaching and learning) by means of the European Credits Transfer System (ECTS) produced some very significant changes in issues such as “permanent learning and active learning” (Barragan 2009: 2) and ‘learning by means of (professional) competences’ which entail new learning methodologies and new evaluation processes.

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…

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 …

The web-based Language and Style course, e-learning and stylistics

2006

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…

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,…

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…