Stylistic Features Research Articles

The architecture of visual narrative: Can text-to-image algorithms enhance the power of stylistic narrative for architecture

Architecture has always been a means of communicating stories through its design, with its structures and spaces serving as visual narratives. However, recent advancements in technology have created opportunities for architects to enhance their storytelling capabilities through the use of text-to-image algorithms. These algorithms have the potential to improve visual narratives by enabling architects to translate written descriptions into tangible visual representations. This article explores the architecture of visual narrative and how text-to-image algorithms can enhance it in diverse styles. This inquiry aims to help architectural epistemology understand and foresee the potential impact of this technology on the field of architecture. To understand the limits of AI in generating styles to enhance architectural narrative, six distinct styles were chosen for experimentation. The styles were selected based on their unique features, including an architect’s style, movement, or era. These styles include Zaha Hadid, Brutalist, modern-minimalistic, Peter Zumthor, Gothic, and Gaudi. The narrative was kept the same for each style while observing the changes in AI-generated visuals. The results were evaluated by comparing AI’s interpretations in terms of stylistic, environmental, material, form-based, and atmospheric features. While the results showed promise in terms of variations in each category, AI was not successful in implementing all stylistic features while keeping the narrative stable. In particular, after the second environment layer, the modern-minimalistic, Zumthor, and Brutalist styles lost their distinct features, while Gothic and Gaudi-inspired visuals were hardly generated even in the second environment layer. As a result, AI performed well in generating detailed environmental features without any given narrative and creating an atmospheric environment with enlightening the environment for the last layer.

Signs of the Style of Early Romances by N. S. Golovanov

Abstract. The article is devoted to the early romances of N. S. Golovanov, a great Russian and Soviet conductor and composer, who, due to circumstances, is not familiar to the general public. The work explores a wide range of stylistic features of the composer’s music and the infl uence of the contemporary composers’ styles, often very contradictory, on his work. Golovanov’s legacy is explored within the framework of the synthesis of the Russian classical tradition and modernist movements of the early 20th century. The principles of choosing a poetic basis and the genre sphere of their implementation are studied.

Structural and stylistic features of german phraseological units with a coloronym component

The article presents an analysis of the structural and stylistic features of German phraseological units with a coloronym component and considers the peculiarities of the relations between the components of these constructions. The point of view established in linguistics is that stable phrases with adjectives expressing basic color concepts are phraseological units. The author identifies and structures nominal and verbal groups of phraseological units with a coloronym component, presents an analysis of the relationship between the components of stable phrases containing a color designation. It was found that the functions of classification and amplification stand out as the main functions of coloronym adjectives within a stable phrase. The theoretical and practical significance of the study consists in substantiating the originality of structural and stylistic features of German phraseological units with coloronym adjectives, which is due to the degree of cohesion and the nature of rethinking the components of the structure. The possibility of using an adjective as a semantically pivotal word in a stable phrase is proved.

Application of corps linguistics to analyze grammatical and stylistic features of Germanic languages

Application of corps linguistics to analyze grammatical and stylistic features of Germanic languages

Comparison of the English Versions of Poem Lu Zhai

Chinese classical poetry, as a treasure of Chinese culture, has always attracted numerous translators. Translating classical poetry not only requires accurately conveying the artistic conception and expression of the original work, but also requires flexible application of translation techniques to adapt to different language and cultural backgrounds. Poetry translation is a difficult point in the translation of literary works, and poetry is known as “literature in literature”. Its form is brief but its meaning is profound, “words are here and meaning is there, words are full and meaning is infinite”. This article will take the classic Chinese classical poem “Lu Zhai"”as an example, and use the method of literature review to collect and analyze G W. Translated versions by two translators, G.W. Robinson and Xu Yuanchong. Firstly, a comprehensive reading and understanding of the two versions were conducted. Secondly, by comparing the translation styles of the two versions, we compared rhyme, image, sentence as well as arrangement. Through these comparisons, the article draws conclusions about the different stylistic characteristics of the two translators. This study is of great significance in revealing translators’ understanding and expression of classical poetry.

Challenges and Risks of (In)Adequate Linguistic Structures in Reporting on Suffering in Israel, Palestine, and Ukraine – The Case of bild.de

This paper is the result of monitoring articles from online media in the German language on current topics. Given that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is currently the central topic of every world media, a linguistic analysis of the texts on the mentioned topic is carried out, from 07. 10, 2023, when the horrific murders of Izreal citizens took place, until 12/22, 2023. years. The focus is on the analysis and comparison of linguistic means used to describe suffering civilian, treating in more detail their morphological, semantic, and stylistic features. The results of the research show whether adequate language expressions and structures are used in reporting on the war casualties of civilians in Israel, Gaza, and Ukraine, where the focus is on being civilians in Israel and Gaza. All examples are taken from the German portal bild.de, considering that it is about the most read portal in Germany.

Melodic Construction in Children's Songs "Toyor Al-Janna Channel as a Model"

This study aims to identify the melodic construction of a child's song from a specialist standpoint, as well as the characteristics of the melodic style used in these songs. The research population consists of a selection of songs from Toyor Al-Janna channel، which included (22) songs selected randomly.The researchers relied on the descriptive analytical method to prepare this study, and attempted to scientifically analyze songs in an attempt to discover the melodic building there in. The study concluded a set of results: the structure of the melodic sentences of children's songs is formulated with a mechanism that tends to rely on familiar musical scales and a simple music distribution, with melodic styles familiar to the child, which begin with a musical introduction with modern electronic instruments, and with active and simple rhythms. Most of the passages tune is concentrated in an up-and-down tonal sequence and in simple melodic jumps، repeating the tune within the child's sound space. It was clear that melodies of this age category missed the harmonic tunes for not fitting into the age category of children. The study concluded with a number of recommendations the most important of which are: the necessity of diversification of the rhythms and genres accompanying children's songs to avoid monotony and repetition, and to focus on variations in melody in the song while maintaining simplicity so that the child can perform it.

Toward Embodied Defamiliarization: Immersion, Predictive Processing, and Anna Kavan’s Ice

ABSTRACT In an attempt to further develop debates at the intersection of cognitive and unnatural narratology, the article argues in favor of a framework for capturing immersion–defamiliarization interaction in narratives, which involves the possibility of defamiliarization being an embodied phenomena that does not adversely affect immersion. The article argues that when framing scalar models of the immersion–defamiliarization axis in embodied predictive processing and in the psychology of art, defamiliarization can in some cases take an embodied form, which does not obstruct immersion. The argument is developed with three interrelated claims showcasing that immersion requires some degree of defamiliarization in the first place, that stylistic features, far from being transparent, can mitigate defamiliarization effects in unnatural narratives and sustain immersion because of emotional charge, and those reflective or critical attitudes associated with defamiliarization can take a form of intuitions and sensations, remaining embodied rather than distanced and cerebral. The article illustrates this point by analyzing Anna Kavan’s avant-garde novel Ice, which is both a staple of unnatural narratives and unusual for its immersive capacities.

Paint-CUT: A Generative Model for Chinese Landscape Painting Based on Shuffle Attentional Residual Block and Edge Enhancement

As one of the precious cultural heritages, Chinese landscape painting has developed unique styles and techniques. Researching the intelligent generation of Chinese landscape paintings from photos can benefit the inheritance of traditional Chinese culture. To address detail loss, blurred outlines, and poor style transfer in present generated results, a model for generating Chinese landscape paintings from photos named Paint-CUT is proposed. In order to solve the problem of detail loss, the SA-ResBlock module is proposed by combining shuffle attention with the resblocks in the generator, which is used to enhance the generator’s ability to extract the main scene information and texture features. In order to solve the problem of poor style transfer, perceptual loss is introduced to constrain the model in terms of content and style. The pre-trained VGG is used to extract the content and style features to calculate the perceptual loss and, then, the loss can guide the model to generate landscape paintings with similar content to landscape photos and a similar style to target landscape paintings. In order to solve the problem of blurred outlines in generated landscape paintings, edge loss is proposed to the model. The Canny edge detection is used to generate edge maps and, then, the edge loss between edge maps of landscape photos and generated landscape paintings is calculated. The generated landscape paintings have clear outlines and details by adding edge loss. Comparison experiments and ablation experiments are performed on the proposed model. Experiments show that the proposed model can generate Chinese landscape paintings with clear outlines, rich details, and realistic style. Generated paintings not only retain the details of landscape photos, such as texture and outlines of mountains, but also have similar styles to the target paintings, such as colors and brush strokes. So, the generation quality of Chinese landscape paintings has improved.

Stylistic Labels <i>Bookish</i> and <i>Colloquial</i> in Phraseological Dictionaries

The article deals with discrepancies between stylistic labels of phraseological units in various dictionaries, which is considered to be one of the deep-rooted issues in lexicography. The authors compiled an electronic dataset of four phraseological dictionaries of the Russian language and then analysed the use of the stylistic labels knizhnoje (bookish) and razgovornoje (colloquial) in them. The results demonstrate considerable discrepancies between the dictionaries both in the set of stylistic labels and in the density of stylistic information. In addition, the relevance of stylistic labels, in particular that of razgovornoje (colloquial), varies considerably. The authors then statistically explored the connection between the stylistic labels knizhnoje (bookish) or razgovornoje (colloquial) and other stylistic characteristics using the chi-square test. Only a few pairs of stylistic labels have been found to possess a statistically significant connection, among them knizhnoje (bookish) and vysokoje (elevated), ustarevshee (archaic) and knizhnoje (bookish) as well as the combination of razgovornoje (colloquial) and emotive and expressive labels. The main differences in the stylistic labeling of one phraseological unit in different dictionaries have been found to include the discrepancy between the labels razgovornoje (colloquial) and prostorechnoje (vernacular) as well as assigning the label knizhnoje (bookish) in one dictionary and the label razgovornoje (colloquial) or prostorechnoje (vernacular) in the other. In the final part of the article, the authors apply a corpus-oriented approach to verify the stylistic labels knizhnoje (bookish) or razgovornoje (colloquial) by comparing the frequency of the corresponding phraseological units in corpora of fiction and colloquial speech respectively. According to the results, less than a half of the analysed phraseological units correspond to the stylistic label assigned to them in the dictionary. The debatable cases in terms of being knizhnoje (bookish) or razgovornoje (colloquial) were then analysed and found to predominantly occur in the corpus of fiction. On the basis of the findings it is concluded that the corpus-oriented approach can be used for assigning and verifying stylistic labels as long as the technical limitations and the heterogeneity of the units in phraseological dictionaries are taken into account.

Слова со сложными основами как члены словообразовательного гнезда в немецком языке (на примере гнезда с вершиной “lieben”)

The study aims to identify the word-formation, semantic and stylistic features of words with complex stems belonging to the word family with the verbal base word “lieben” in the German language. The paper examines in detail the formation of words according to parts of speech, finds polysemous units among them and determines how their meanings developed, as well as the type of polysemy. In addition, the author drew attention to the spheres of functioning of these words in speech. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the author is the first to describe words with complex stems belonging to the word family comprehensively, from different positions. As a result of the study, it was found that compound nouns are the most numerous class of compound words and blends in this word family. Compound words, or composites, are formed by compounding, blends are formed by blending. According to their semantic structure, words with complex stems are monosemants, only a small number of them have four and two meanings. Words with complex stems of this word family both denote common concepts and are terms in certain branches of science, such as biology, botany, psychology, astronomy, mythology, etc.

The Hybrid Musical Landscape of Ligeti's Late Concertos

AbstractDiscussing his Horn Trio, György Ligeti imaginatively describes the second movement as a dance that was “inspired by different folk musics of nonexistent people, as if Hungary, Romania, and all of the Balkans were located somewhere between Africa and the Caribbean.” And in more general remarks about his works, he goes on to suggest that, rather than overtly referencing their stylistic features, he abstracted technical principles from various traditions and combined them into an idiosyncratically amalgamated musical language. This essay shows an expansive approach to hybridity in Ligeti's Violin Concerto and Hamburg Concerto, going well beyond previous remarks about African rhythmic influences. Ligeti's practice encompasses not only rhythm, but also texture, pitch, and tuning systems; it spans a wider breadth of traditions as well, including newly identified sources such as flute and panpipe ensembles from New Guinea and yodeling traditions from across the globe. An analysis of passages from these late concertos – undertaken alongside evidence from his ethnomusicological sources, recordings, and sketches housed at the Paul Sacher Stiftung – demonstrates the intricacies and patterns of Ligeti's late style and the compelling statement it makes about the role of hybridity and globalization in contemporary life.

Conveying Spirit Through Form: An Exploration on the Shape Symbols of Foshan Awakening Lion Head

This study begins by focusing on the shape elements of the Foshan lion head, aiming to understand the unique design symbols and cultural significance of the vibrantly colored Foshan Awakening Lion. The research delves into the distinct features of the Foshan lion head, examining its role as a confluence of historical heritage, regional characteristics, and folk beliefs. Through an analysis of various visual elements of the lion head, such as size, shape, and decorative patterns, the study unveils the embedded cultural narratives and historical significances. Additionally, this research discusses the evolution of these elements within the Foshan lion dance culture, highlighting their importance in the preservation and development of Southern Chinese lion dance traditions. The findings of this research contribute to a deeper understanding of the artistic value and cultural implications of the Foshan lion head. This work is of significant importance for the preservation of cultural heritage in the Foshan region and provides theoretical support for the research and inheritance of Southern Chinese lion dance culture. By offering a comprehensive cultural interpretation of the Foshan lion head’s stylistic features, this study enhances the reader’s understanding of its role and significance in the traditional culture of the Foshan area, offering valuable insights and directions for future research and practices in related cultural fields.

Analysis of differences in aroma and sensory characteristics of the mainstream smoke of six cigars

Cigars have unique aroma and style characteristics. In order to clarify the differences of aroma components between domestic and imported cigars and the material basis of the stylistic characteristics of different cigars, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and sensory evaluation were used to compare and analyze the aroma components in the mainstream smoke of four domestic cigars and two imported cigars. The GC-MS results showed that a total of 97 aroma components were measured in the smoke of the six cigars, and the types of aroma components were similar, but there were differences in their contents. In comparison with those of domestic cigars, imported cigars had suitable nicotine content, and higher contents of phytol, neophytadiene, 3-methylpentanoic acid, and (+)-δ-cadinene. To further explore the differences in the aroma components of the six cigars, GC-MS data combined with chemometrics were used to screen out 14 key aroma components based on P-value (P) < 0.05, Variable Importance Projection (VIP) > 1, and Aroma Activity Values (OAV) > 1. The key aroma components of each cigar were obtained, Snow Dream No. 5: cedrol; Wangguan Guocui: 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one, pyridine, 2-ethyl-6-methylpyrazine; General Achileus No. 3: p-cresol, 2-methylbutyraldehyde, methyl cyclopentenolone; Montecristo No. 4: cedrol, 2-methylbutyraldehyde, guaiacol, 4-vinylguaiacol, methyl cyclopentenolone; Romeo y Julieta Wide Churchills: cedrol, 2,6-dimethylpyrazine, 2-ethyl-6-methylpyrazine, 2-heptanone, phenethyl alcohol; Great Wall No. 2: p-cresol, phenethyl alcohol, geranylacetone, methyl cyclopentenolone, dihydroactinidiolide. The odor descriptors of these compounds were consistent with the aroma profiles that were prominent in the senses of each cigar. This experiment initially explored the differences in aroma composition and style characteristics of cigars and provided data to support the quality improvement of domestic cigars.

Foolishness in the work of Galina Ustvolskaya

The subject of the article is the phenomenon of foolishness in the works of Galina Ustvolskaya. The author suggests that in the external manifestations of this phenomenon (protest, denunciation) there is an underlying tragic content. In the opinion of the author, the urge towards extremes, as a typical feature of Ustvolskaya's creativity, is the composer's desire to conceal emotion in her compositions. This emotional tension is the very reason for the intonational ambivalence of Ustvolskaya's musical language. In this connection, the author identifies similarities in the composer's work with the foolishness described in Natalia Rostova's monograph, The Man of Reverse Perspective. In this study, the figure of the foolish man is compared to an icon, a reverse perspective which implies a multiplicity of viewpoints. For Ustvolskaya, this multiplicity of meanings is transformed into a special method - genre diffusion. The scientific novelty of the presented study lies in the author's interpretation of the metaphor of foolishness in the works of Ustvolskaya in the context of philosophical justification of this phenomenon. The author's special contribution to the theme's research is the analysis of some specific features of Galina Ustvolskaya's musical style on the example of her piano works. The article provides the notational examples of Twelve Preludes for Piano as well as Third and Fourth Piano Sonatas as the most vivid illustrations of the author's stance. The presented works focus on the intonation and genre spheres as well as outline the further development of these spheres.

The oldest Novgorodian icons of St. Nicholas with the female saints and other chosen saints on the margins

The veneration of St. Nicholas was extremely spread in the Medieval Rus’ culture. This fact found it’s expression in great variety of this saint representation as in the shades of meaning that are conveyed by the stylistic features of specific works. The St. Nicholas icons with the chosen saints on the margins are the subject of scientific research. Especially we will focus on such works of art, which composition includes the female saints’ representations. Despite a certain interest in the problem of interpreting the order of saints in the composition of the icons under consideration, researchers have not actively addressed this aspect of the topic, so the comprehensive iconographical interpretation was not provided. The aim of this study is to identify the iconographical characteristic and style features of the oldest Novgorodian icons of St. Nicholas with the female saints and other chosen saints on the margins. As a result of a comprehensive analysis, first of all, it should be mentioned that female saints played a great role in Medieval Novgorod culture. Secondly, taking into accounts some aspects of their cults and their representations on liturgical items, the female saints’ figures were an ecclesiastical symbol. Thirdly, female saints were protectors of the novgorodians and the Orthodox Christian in pre-Mongol era as in 15th–16th century.

Stylistic features of the development of Muravyov-Amursky Street in Khabarovsk in the pre-revolutionary period

The work presents a systematic picture of the development of the historical core of the architectural ensemble of the central main street of the city of Khabarovsk - Muravyov-Amursky, which was formed during the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries, and is currently of absolute interest from the point of view of studying the history of regional architecture of the pre-revolutionary period associated with the economic development of the eastern outskirts of the Russian Empire, the construction of new cities and settlements and the creation of transport infrastructure that connected the Pacific region with the central part of the country. The study was based on materials obtained by the authors during the study of scientific and local history literature, Internet resources and archival searches, as well as their own field surveys of street development. As a result, the stylistic and space-planning characteristics of the buildings and structures included in the ensemble, determined by the specifics of the development of the city and its architectural and construction complex, were considered. The study showed that the status of Khabarovsk as the administrative center of the Amur Governor-General and, as a consequence, the presence in it of three categories of customers: the city administration, the military department and private merchants, as well as the characteristics of local building materials, determined the typological and form-creative diversity of the ensemble of the central street of the city , which developed during the period under review in four stylistic systems: Russian style, retrospectivism, “brick” style and modernism. The authors identified a range of problems of interaction between historical buildings and new construction objects, which are actively being introduced into the urban fabric and changing the perception of the cultural landscape of the city.

Learning Better Registration to Learn Better Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation: Authenticity, Diversity, and Robustness.

In this work, we address the task of few-shot medical image segmentation (MIS) with a novel proposed framework based on the learning registration to learn segmentation (LRLS) paradigm. To cope with the limitations of lack of authenticity, diversity, and robustness in the existing LRLS frameworks, we propose the better registration better segmentation (BRBS) framework with three main contributions that are experimentally shown to have substantial practical merit. First, we improve the authenticity in the registration-based generation program and propose the knowledge consistency constraint strategy that constrains the registration network to learn according to the domain knowledge. It brings the semantic-aligned and topology-preserved registration, thus allowing the generation program to output new data with great space and style authenticity. Second, we deeply studied the diversity of the generation process and propose the space-style sampling program, which introduces the modeling of the transformation path of style and space change between few atlases and numerous unlabeled images into the generation program. Therefore, the sampling on the transformation paths provides much more diverse space and style features to the generated data effectively improving the diversity. Third, we first highlight the robustness in the learning of segmentation in the LRLS paradigm and propose the mix misalignment regularization, which simulates the misalignment distortion and constrains the network to reduce the fitting degree of misaligned regions. Therefore, it builds regularization for these regions improving the robustness of segmentation learning. Without any bells and whistles, our approach achieves a new state-of-the-art performance in few-shot MIS on two challenging tasks that outperform the existing LRLS-based few-shot methods. We believe that this novel and effective framework will provide a powerful few-shot benchmark for the field of medical image and efficiently reduce the costs of medical image research. All of our code will be made publicly available online.

The Technical and Aesthetic Characteristics of The Pirouette as Applied in Classical Dance

As the core part of technical training, rotation skill has a very important training value and status. "Spin" is one of the most important kinds of Chinese classical dance technique, as the Chinese classical dance teaching training content and the teaching material system, in constant teaching practice, Chinese classical dance rotation technology from single to diversified development, and gradually in the teaching and training show a unique aesthetic attributes and style. In the training of technical skills of Chinese classical dance, "the technology of body rhyme, technology and rhyme" and "training body with body" are the main thoughts, which run through the teaching of Chinese classical dance, and accurately interpret the needs of aesthetic and style characteristics of Chinese classical dance culture. In the classical dance teaching, the rotation skills are more difficult. Through the research of this paper, we can provide new ideas and directions for teaching, and help teachers to form new teaching thinking and teaching methods. Secondly, the study in this paper can deepen the understanding and understanding of teachers and students on the rotation skills in dance, guide students to establish correct thinking and learning attitude, which is conducive to obtaining an ideal learning effect and improving the level of classical dance.

Merkez Karacaören Köyünden (Hadriani) Bir Mezar Steli

The tomb stele in good condition, which was acquired to the Burdur Museum by a citizen, is preserved in the garden of the museum. The stele from Karacaören village of the central district of the province must have been carved in an itinerant workshop in Hadriani. The tomb stele, which has a flat lower part and a triangular upper part, features a standing man and a woman in the scene. Both figures are of the “Dioscurides” type. This type, which is quite common in the man figures of the Roman Imperial period, is also preferred for the woman figures. The most distinctive features of this type are that the right arm, bent at the elbow with the posture of the figures, is enclosed in a sling formed from the himation, while the left arm adjacent to the body is slightly bent at the elbow and extended downwards, holding the end of the himation. This type also represents the status of the man figure and his family. The tomb stele, which is dated to the Roman Imperial period with its rather simple appearance, has been suggested a period based on the stylistic evaluations of the man and woman figures. The hairstyle of the man figure is similar to that of the portrait of Traianus in type I. The hair fashion in the woman portrait is similar to that in the “Ceres” type portrait of Vibia Sabina, the wife of Hadrianus (117-138 AD). In addition to this hairstyle/fashion, other stylistic features of the figures reflect the stylistic characteristics of the Traianus (98-117 AD) period. As a result of the analyzes, the tomb stele was dated to the Late Traianus-Early Hadrianus period.