Stylistic Features Research Articles

Interweaving Melody and Beat -Specialties of Japanese and Korean Pop Music Styles and Development from Yonezu Kenshi and Han JiSung

Currently, in Asia and around the world, Japanese and Korean popular music cultures have a large number of fans and imitators. These two pop music cultures have their own characteristics, both of which have extremely distinctive style characteristics, complete and standardized industrial systems and a large number of creative, young and energetic practitioners. Therefore, the author tries to explore the style and development characteristics of Japanese and Korean pop music. In order to be more precise and efficient, the author selected two representative musicians, Yonezu Kenshi (Japan) and Han JiSung (South Korea) for the study. The author's research method is as follows. The author makes full use of previous theoretical research on Japanese and Korean pop music, combined with professional knowledge of music, and collects statements and social interviews of relevant authors in order to have a comprehensive understanding of their representative music works. Then the author makes a coded analysis and statistical drawing of the melody, rhythm and emotional expression of his representative works. After the study, the author found that the development of Japanese and Korean popular music cultures are similar but also significantly different. Mainly, the former is relatively conservative and traditional, focusing on melody; the latter is more open and tolerant, focusing on rhythm; at the same time, there are quite a lot of similarities and differences between the two in terms of emotional expression and lyrical characteristics. Finally, based on the summarized developmental characteristics, the author draws some inspirations for the development of Chinese pop music.

“Me aviento el English y el Spanish”: Spanish-English code-switching in Texas conjunto artist Nick Villarreal

Aims and objectives: This study focuses on Nick Villarreal (1951–2017), a bilingual and bicultural conjunto musician from San Antonio. It ascertains the frequency, formal features, and socio-pragmatic functions of the Spanish/English code-switching found in his songs. Methodology: Quantitative and qualitative approaches are utilized to explore Nick Villarreal’s use of code-switching in song lyrics. Data and analysis: Nick Villarreal’s commercially available discography (178 non-repeated tracks) was classified by matrix language. All instances of code-switching were identified and classified by type, syntactic category, and function. Song themes were inductively analyzed. Findings: Most of Nick Villarreal’s lyrics are in Spanish (73%), while 22% contain code-switching. Lexical insertions are the most common type of switches (65%). Villarreal also employs other contact phenomena, such as fully nativized borrowings, and syntactic and semantic calques. His virtuosity is apparent in his humorous bilingualism, especially in the creative nominalizations of English clauses as nicknames (e.g., la I-didn’t-do-it). The main function performed by switches is poetic—that is, stylistic uses of language, such as rhyming, joking, and puns. He conveys authenticity through code-switching and other enregistered linguistic sources such as border slang, or caló, and working-class/rural Mexican Spanish. He shows loyalty toward a working-class rural Spanish-speaking audience of conjunto that shares his background, while simultaneously appealing to second-generation Mexican Americans through his use of English and references to Anglo culture. Originality: Only recently have scholars begun to describe the linguistic features of borderland styles. This study focuses on an artist who has never received scholarly attention before but who turned his music into a meaningful vehicle for linguistic and cultural anti-assimilatory subversion. Implications: Villarreal employs strategies common to other borderlands bilingual musicians while innovating creatively. He actively stylizes the local to evoke a sense of authenticity and is thus a meaningful example of the intersection between language representation, class allegiance, linguistic attitudes, and cultural stance.

Arbitrary style transfer via multi-feature correlation

Recent research in arbitrary style transfer has highlighted challenges in maintaining the balance between content structure and style patterns. Moreover, the improper application of style patterns onto the content image often results in suboptimal quality. In this paper, a novel style transfer network, called MCNet, is proposed. It is based on multi-feature correlations. To better explore the intrinsic relationship between the style image and the content image and to transfer the most suitable style onto the content image, a novel Global Style-Attentional Transfer Module, named GSATM, is introduced in this work. GSATM comprises two parts: Forward Adaptive Style Transformation (FAST) and Delayed Style Transformation (DST). The former analyzes the relationship between style and content features and fine-tunes the style features, whereas the latter transfers the content features based on the fine-tuned style features. Moreover, a new encoding and decoding structure is designed to effectively handle the output of GSATM. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments fully demonstrate the superiority of our algorithm. Project page: https://github.com/XiangJinCherry/MCNet.

Stylization of Oral Elements in the Novel Women. Voices. By Jasmina Musabegović

This paper aims to analyze and interpret the linguistic and stylistic means by which the world of the novel Women. Voices. by Jasmina Musabegović is built. The paper analyzes and interprets the novel’s spoken language stylization, as its main stylistic feature. It is based on the assumption that orality, as a linguistic-stylistic feature of the novel, is primarily realized at the syntactic-stylistic level. In this direction, the elements of expressive syntax, such as spoken (oral) sentence length, elliptical, nominative, and fragmented sentences, as well as syntactic repetitions and accumulations, are especially explored. The mentioned syntactic-stylistic means are investigated to point out their stylistic potential in the revitalization of the tonal, rhythmic, intonation, and intensity values of the spoken language, based on which novelistic voices are generated as the narrative subject of the novel. Also, exclamatory and expressive interrogative sentences are explored in the paper as significant means of conveying emotional-expressive (affective) and intensifying the semantic values of a sentence. In doing so, it is particularly indicated that interrogative sentences, in addition to appearing as elements of expressive syntax, have a significant opening (cataphoric) value in developing the novel's narrative content. In addition, the paper points out the stylistic possibilities and values of the vernacular idiom in the stylization of novelistic expression with folk expression.

RESEARCH ON FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHM OF OIL PAINTING ARTISTIC STYLE BASED ON EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION

We present a novel approach to extracting artistic style features from oil paintings, addressing the limitations of existing one-way matrices. Our proposed algorithm focuses on capturing emotional expression in oil painting styles. To ensure relevance to real-world needs and standards, we establish a multi-objective framework with a set of indicators and parameters for fundamental oil painting artistic style extraction. This expansion of the feature extraction calculation range involves the creation of a multi-objective calculation matrix and the development of a pyramid sequence and extraction algorithm for conveying emotional expression. By leveraging local constraints specific to oil paintings, our method effectively extracts artistic style features. The results of our tests, which involved five oil paintings, demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. By applying the Artistic Style Feature Extraction (ASFE) algorithm based on emotional expression, we successfully control the differences in oil painting texture depth within a range of 0.65. This indicates a high level of authenticity and accuracy in our algorithm, superior calculation performance, and practical utility for various applications.

ACCENTUATING STYLISTIC FEATURES IN THE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE OF HIKAYAT GUL BAKAWALI

This article describes stylistic features found in Hikayat Gul Bakawali, an ancient love tale of Indian origin translated into Classical Malay in 1875 from an Urdu prose version composed by Nihal Chand Lahori entitled, “Mazhab-e ‘Ishq, urf Gul-e Bakawali,” (The Religion of Love, or the Rose of Bakawali), published in Calcutta in 1804. Although the original tale stems from within the Hindu world view, the Urdu version of 1804 firmly situates the tale within an Islamic framework. Under study is the first known Malay translation by Munsyi Syaikh Muhammad Ali bin Ghulam Husain al-Hindi, a literary scholar of Indian origin living perhaps in one of the cultural centres of the Malay peninsula, who acquired a fine mastery of Classical Malay literature and translated several religious and linguistic texts directly from Arabic as well. The thrust of the discussion is upon the translation and analysis of specific passages, presented successively with emphasis on certain themes or rhetorical strategies. The power of binary oppositions is emphasized on all levels, from that of the description of the characters, to oppositions on the semantic level in many passages. Of interest is the character development of the hero, a human prince in love with the Fairy Princess Puteri Bakawli. Analysed are the hero’s use of language in describing himself to attract the empathy and assistance of his addressees, as well as the narrator’s description of the hero’s bravery and persistence as a faithful lover never to give up on in his quests.

Can Authorship Attribution Models Distinguish Speakers in Speech Transcripts?

Abstract Authorship verification is the task of determining if two distinct writing samples share the same author and is typically concerned with the attribution of written text. In this paper, we explore the attribution of transcribed speech, which poses novel challenges. The main challenge is that many stylistic features, such as punctuation and capitalization, are not informative in this setting. On the other hand, transcribed speech exhibits other patterns, such as filler words and backchannels (e.g., um, uh-huh), which may be characteristic of different speakers. We propose a new benchmark for speaker attribution focused on human-transcribed conversational speech transcripts. To limit spurious associations of speakers with topic, we employ both conversation prompts and speakers participating in the same conversation to construct verification trials of varying difficulties. We establish the state of the art on this new benchmark by comparing a suite of neural and non-neural baselines, finding that although written text attribution models achieve surprisingly good performance in certain settings, they perform markedly worse as conversational topic is increasingly controlled. We present analyses of the impact of transcription style on performance as well as the ability of fine-tuning on speech transcripts to improve performance.1

THE USE OF HYPERBOLIC EXPRESSIONS IN ADVERTISEMENTS

Summary. This article is dedicated to studying the issue of the functioning of hyperbole in English-language advertising texts and its stylistic and pragmatic features. The research is conducted on the material of advertising texts dedicated to perfumery-cosmetic products, hygiene and health products, and slogans of an airline company. The relevance of the study is determined by the significant role of advertising in modern society and the insufficient study of stylistic devices that serve the main persuasive-communicative advertising strategies. The main function of hyperbole is to intensify the concepts of quality, exclusivity, and impact in order to implement leading persuasive strategies. Key words: hyperbola, advertisement, overstatement, text, aim

MƏTN DİLÇİLİYİN OBYEKTİ KİMİ

Text as an Object of Linguistics Summary The article examines the place of text in the syntactic system of language. The logical connection of sentences in the formation of a text as a linguistic unit is noted. A text is not individual sentences, but consists of a group of sentences, being a complex syntactic unit and having a closed structure, it expresses a complete thought. A text as a syntactic unit stands above the sentence. At the language level, a text, compared to the sentence, demonstrates particular complexity in structural and semantic terms. The syntactic features of a complex syntactic whole as a text-forming structure are highlighted. It is emphasized that a complex syntactic whole has a number of grammatical properties and the semantic and stylistic features of combining sentences are revealed. Key words: text, structure, semantics, complex syntactic whole, sentence

On the issue of discovering new names of major cultural figures of the 17th century: master Karp Ivanovich Zolotarev

The 17th century is a century that preserved in the memory of the history of Russian culture vivid monuments, the authors of which were innovative masters, artists, and creators. This article examines the creative life in the historiography of the 17th century icon painter, student of Bogdan Saltanov – Karp Ivanovich Zolotarev, a court master during the reign of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich and the regency of Princess Sophia. Biography of K.I. Zolotarev is presented in the historiography of researchers, historians, restorers in chronology from the 18th century. Only in the late 1970s, thanks to the work of Soviet restorers, were works created by K.I. Zolotarev. Before this, only brief mentions of this multifaceted master were found in historical literature. Part of the research confirms that in a number of works the name of K.I. Zolotarev is listed among the artists of the Armory Chamber and the Gold-Painting Workshop of the Ambassadorial Prikaz. In addition, researchers of Russian book culture spoke about K.I. Zolotarev as a major organizer who headed the workshop of the above-mentioned order. The research made it possible to summarize all the materials about the master and identify the stylistic features of this master, suggesting that the iconographic sources of the works of K.I. Zolotarev could have been works by Dutch and German artists. Biography of K.I. Zolotarev still needs further study and clarification today.

SENSORY MODALITY IN ADVERTISING DISCOURSE

The article is dedicated to the study of sensory modalities in advertising discourse. Advertising discourse refers to the language and communication strategies employed in advertising messages as cohesive texts deeply embedded in real-life contexts amidst numerous accompanying background elements within an integrated communicative environment. It encompasses the linguistic choices, persuasive techniques, and stylistic features used to convey marketing messages to a target audience, aiming at attracting attention, creating desire, and encouraging action, typically towards purchasing a product or service. The aim of this article is to analyze the ways of realizing sensory modalities in advertising discourse. The object of the research is advertising discourse, the subject being manifestations of sensory modalities in advertisements. The factual material of the research was selected from the collections of popular or iconic advertisements. Advertising discourse often appeals to emotions and utilizes visual elements to communicate the intended message effectively and influence consumer behaviour. The heterogeneity of advertisements, represented by a phrase alone or in combination with a static or dynamic visual image or acoustic accompaniment, these combinations vary significantly, increasing the desirability of the advertised product to impress us daily. Different sensory modalities — visual, associated with images; auditory, associated with sounds and their perception; and kinesthetic, associated with physical sensations, as well as their manifestations, reflected in certain speech predicates –influence how we think, feel, mentally represent our experiences and make choices. The application of sensory modalities in advertising discourse is observed on three levels: on the first level, we deal with the material representation of the advertising message that results in different communicative types of advertisements; on the second level, the preferred representational system is revealed via predicates or the sensory-based words; on the third level, product names, pragmatonyms, become the bearers of sensory information, consequently appealing to human senses.

THE TOPONYMY OF THE NOVEL "RECREATION" IN THE CONTEXT OF ANDRUKHOVYCH’S POSTMODERNIST DISCOURSE

The article is devoted to the study of the functional and stylistic features of toponymy, which is observed in the novel of Yu. Andruhovich, who is considered to be a bright representative of the postmodern artistic discourse. In modern linguistics, the potential possibilities of literary and artistic onymes of postmodern works have not yet been sufficiently studied, this vocabulary has been occasionally the object of linguistic analysis. Namely, in the toponymicon (and more broadly, the onomasticon) of the "new Ukrainian novel" there have been reflected postmodern masquerade, irony, grassrootsness and emotional markedness. The study of toponyms appears to be quite interesting and relevant, because the creation of such units is a creative process that depends on the artistic intention of the author; toponyms determine the chronotope of the work, take an active part in the creation of images, cause certain associations, develop symbolic meanings. Therefore, the study of onymia, and in particular the toponymy of the novel, is crucial for the study of the writer’s authorial idiostyle, the peculiarities of the linguistic picture of the world created by him. The purpose of the presented investigation is the analysis of the toponymicon of the novel "Recreation" by Yu. Andruhovich, aimed at clarifying the semantic and functional specifics of this important category of onyms as markers of the writer’s idiostyle. The object of the study was the onomasticon of the novel "Recreations", and the subject of consideration was various categories of toponyms as structural components of the idyllic complex. Descriptive, statistical methods, as well as the method of contextual analysis have been used in the analysis. It has been revealed that the toponymy in Yu. Andruhovich’s novel constitutes a solid lexical layer, has a wide range of action in the artistic text and is determined by a rich symbolic semanticization due to the spread of the connotative meaning of toponyms. By generating new meanings of his own vocabulary, the writer expands the semantic-pragmatic parameters of the artistic text and proves that the toponymic space units have inexhaustible resources for solving the artistic tasks of postmodernism. It has been proved that toponyms in the novel "Recreations" perform the function of not only a local-temporal identifier, but also a certain symbolic reinterpretation. The results of the study of the toponymic space of Yu. Andruhovich’s novel showed that, due to the high activity and a kind of "playing" in the text, toponyms constitute an important element of the writer’s idiostyle, his language palette, and at the same time reveal the author’s own manner of onomastic writing, his postmodern intentions. A systematic analysis of the onomastic code of the Ukrainian postmodern discourse as a promising direction can be the subject for further research.

OIKONIMICON OF LESYA UKRAINKA’S DRAMATURGY

The article analyzes the semantic features of the oikonyms of Lesya Ukrainka’s drama. The main focus is on connotations acquired by oikonyms in the artistic expression of Lesya Ukrainka. Oikonyms, i.e. proper names of settlements, are historical and cultural heritage, since they reflect historical events, life, culture of the people, as well as their customs and traditions. Semantic, derivational and stylistic features of oikonyms depend on the individual characteristics of the author of the work, genre specificity, time of creation, literary direction and method. The purpose of the article is to analyze the functional load and semantic content of oikonyms that occur in Lesya Ukrainka’s dramatic works. The object of the research is the toponymic vocabulary in Lesya Ukrainka’s drama, the subject is the semantic and functional features of oikonyms as a component of the artistic and figurative system of the work. During our research, a number of methods were used, among which the descriptive method (used to analyze factual material), the quantitative counting method (to indicate the number of oikonyms in the work of art), and elements of the component analysis method, have a leading role. Oikonymicon in the artistic space of Lesya Ukrainka’s dramas is an active artistic technique that illustrates the author’s voice, the author’s concept of the characters and of the work in general, an important factor in character formation and plot development. And even the absence of oikonyms in the context of drama or its muted function becomes the manifestation and shade of the most important thing that the dramatist lays into the artistic background of the work. This helps reveal other problems that the author considers too important and for the sake of which gives life to her poetic masterpieces in pain and exhaustion, which suffered such a difficult stage fate and which are only now being read to full extent by a Ukrainian reader. We define the semantic study of the oikonymy of modern writers as the further direction of our exploration.

STRUCTURE AND SEMANTICS OF THE INAUGURAL SPEECH IN THE PRESIDENTIAL DISCOURSE (ON THE MATERIAL IN UKRAINIAN, POLISH, SLOVAK AND SERBIAN LANGUAGES)

The article is devoted to the study of structural and semantic features of the main speech genre of presidential rhetoric — the inaugural speech. We characterized the main approaches to defining the speech genre and highlighted the structural components of the inaugural speech in political discourse. The purpose of the study is to reveal the structural and semantic features of the presidents’ inaugural speeches presented in Slavic languages (Ukrainian, Polish, Slovak and Serbian). The object of the research is the presidential discourse implemented in the speech activity of the presidents of Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia and Serbia. The subject of the study is the structural components and semantic features of the inaugural speeches in the presidential discourse. We analyzed the inaugural speeches of the presidents who held this position in the first half of 2024: Volodymyr Zelensky (Ukraine), Andrzej Duda (Republic of Poland), Zuzana Čaputová (Slovak Republic), Aleksandar Vučić (Republic of Serbia). The material for the analysis was the texts of the inaugural speeches delivered by the presidents in the last term. The methods of component and linguistic stylistic analysis were used to analyze the structural and semantic features of the inaugural speeches. The component analysis made it possible to consider the lexical semantics, and the linguistic stylistic analysis became the basis for determining the stylistic features of the texts. The structure of the inaugural speech covers the framework elements of the greeting, conclusion, formulation of the political creed. Speech acts of thanksgiving are the main structural elements of the inaugural speech of the presidents. At the semantic level, the inaugural speech contains a description of the political situation in the country in the context of historical events and a specification of program provisions of a priority nature. Common elements for the inaugural speeches of the presidents of Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia and Serbia are the presence of mandatory structural elements, the dominance of speech acts of thanksgiving, appeals to the historical past and the formulation of future political steps. Among the specific features of presidential speeches, the use of ethnonyms in the speeches of V. Zelenskyi and A. Duda was recorded; the dominance of references to ancient history in the speeches of A. Duda and O. Vuchich; V. Zelenskyi’s criticism of the previous government, in particular the country’s presidents.

«Expressive movement» as the creation of super-authenticity in the cinema of K. Saura (using the example of the trilogy «Bloody Wedding», «Carmen», «Witchcraft Love»)

The article analyzes the creative features of Carlos Saura's style. The focus is on dance as a meaning-forming and aesthetic principle. The author of the article explores the issues of expressiveness of dance as an element of photogeny created in the film. Photogeny serves the director as an element that allows him to achieve, as the author of the study sees it, his main task – to erase the differences between the concepts of art and life. The photogeny of dance allows the film to show a certain super-authenticity, which includes various dimensions: from personal to national. Saura achieves a similar effect, among other things, with the help of «defamiliarizing» techniques, the use of which leads to the creation of a special chronotope that expresses that very super-authenticity, connecting both the real and the symbolic.

Managerial style as an indicator of the nature of interaction between regional authorities and the population

The article presents an analysis of respondents' perception of the regional management style as a factor characterizing the managerial communication system. Based on the secondary conceptualization of empirical data (6021 field documents) obtained in 2019-2020 in 12 regions of the Russian Federation during a self-filling questionnaire based on a quota sample calculated for each region according to Rosstat, the author conducted a study of the relationship between respondents' characteristics of the regional management style with agreement with it, concern about the shortcomings of the regional management system and assessments the work of the vertical of power from the federal to the local levels. The author identified a number of patterns, based on which it was concluded that groups of respondents who define the regional management style differently agree with it to varying degrees, demonstrate concern about the shortcomings of the characterized management system in different ways and evaluate the final result of the activities of the power and management vertical. Respondents who define the management style as authoritarian and clan-based tend to be more concerned about the shortcomings of the management system for the most part than respondents who characterize the management style as democratic, collegial, liberal or vague. Respondents who define the management style as authoritarian tend to evaluate the final result of the work of authorities at all levels lower than respondents who believe that the management style is democratic, collegial or uncertain.

A Stylistic Analysis of Joe Biden's Inaugural Political Speech

In this paper, a stylistic approach has been used to investigate the linguistic features of President Joe Biden's inauguration political speech. Special importance is given to its linguistic characteristics that affect the structure of the selected political speech. This paper is an attempt to highlight the political language of Biden’s political speech. The aim is to seek out how political speeches are packaged to persuade citizens and readers and how stylistic analytical tools assist readers in interpreting the language of Biden in the selected speech. The data has been collected from Time Magazine. The data selection is restricted to Biden's inauguration political speech and has been chosen based on certain foregrounding features that indicate a powerful stylistic effect on readers. The qualitative method has been used to analyze the selected data. In the analysis, some linguistic features, such as graphological, syntactic, grammatical deviations, transitivity, and modality have been used to investigate the style of the selected speech to reveal persuasion. The findings show that Biden's inauguration political speech achieves power, and persuasion through the use of certain stylistic features including lexical and grammatical categories such as abstract nouns, personal pronouns, mental processes, and certain modal auxiliaries. It is concluded that the lexical items that Biden uses are crucial in passing his message to his nation. However, the tendency to use distinctive foregrounding features in the consistent repetition of lexical items and sentence structures are stylistic technique used by Biden for the sake of persuasion.

The Symbolic Transformation of Real Images in Designing Magazine Covers

The symbolic transformation of real images in designing magazine covers is achieved through the technical processes employed by the designer for rhetorical purposes, which contribute to the intellectual processing by transforming a real image into a symbol that encapsulates its underlying meaning. This results in the creation of new elements and meanings for the image through fresh ideas in content, thus ensuring continuity and coherence in the magazine cover. Based on this, the researcher identified the research problem with the following question: What is the symbolic transformation of real images in designing magazine covers? The researcher defined the research objective as uncovering the symbolic transformation of real images in designing magazine covers. The most important findings reached by the researchers include the following: The symbolic transformation of real images is manifested through design processes by their ability to manipulate and distort, exaggerate, introduce unfamiliarity, integrate, and combine various stylistic features in their clear digital artistic effects in terms of size and eye-catching form. From the cover image, a message is conveyed to the recipient, addressing them and emphasizing through it that the main form of the cover has managed to leave a literal impact on the recipient by symbolizing the figure being referred to. This is also intended to directly clarify the impact of the form on the recipient, in order to convey the idea. As for the most important conclusions reached by the researcher in light of the research results, they are as follows: The symbolic transformation of real images dominates the magazine cover through design processes, utilizing manipulation, distortion, exaggeration, unfamiliarity, integration, composition, and diverse stylistic elements in its clear digital artistic effects, which have been referred to new meanings. The aim is to directly elucidate the impact of the form on the recipient to convey the idea.

Volatomic differences among Vitis amurensis cultivars and its hybrids with V. vinifera revealed the effects of genotype, region, and vintage on grape aroma

Vitis amurensis grape, an East Asian Vitis species, has excellent cold and disease resistance and exhibits high winemaking potential. In this study, the aroma compounds in grapes from five V. amurensis cultivars (‘Beiguohong’, ‘Beiguolan’, ‘Shuangfeng’, ‘Shuanghong’, ‘Shuangyou’) and three interspecific hybrids (‘Beibinghong’, ‘Xuelanhong’, ‘Zuoyouhong’) from two regions (Zuojia and Ji’an, Jilin, China) were identified via HS-SPME-GC/MS. The results showed that V. amurensis grapes had a greater concentration of aroma compounds than the interspecific hybrid berries. ‘Beibinghong’ was relatively rich in terpenes, although their concentrations were all lower than the threshold. ‘Shuangfeng’ contained more concentrations of free C6/C9 compounds, alcohols, aromatics and aldehydes/ketones than the other cultivars. The aroma characteristics of ‘Beiguolan’ and ‘Shuanghong’ were relatively similar. The grapes from the lower temperature and more fertile soil of Zuojia contained more C6/C9 compounds, norisoprenoids and alcohols, while aromatics were more abundant in the grapes from Ji’an, which was warmer than the Zuojia region. Herbaceous, floral, fruity and sweet were the main aroma series of V. amurensis grapes. Our study could provide a reference for the development and utilization of V. amurensis grapes and lay a foundation for the development of wild grape cultivars and the production of wines with characteristic styles.

Linguistic Stylistics of Extremist Discourse in the Digital Realm: Analyzing ISIS's Rhetoric

This study delves into the linguistic characteristics within the structure of extremist discourse across social media platforms, focusing on a collection of speeches by the Islamic State organization (ISIS). The research aims to uncover the thought process and the underlying meanings that can be analyzed through what is known as the Stylistic Footprint. That is done by examining semantic and syntactic levels, identifying repetitions and intensifications of specific lexical units, and considering their use of rhetorical tools and strategies grounded in their linguistic repertoire—which encompasses connotations and phonetic rhythms, or their deliberate choices in the structure of syntactic relation networks including stylistic deviations from the standard expression level.The findings of this analysis highlight that exploring the extremist thought structure embodied in linguistic discourse is a crucial aspect of criminal investigations. It aids in identifying warning signals that precede or potentially predict acts of violence in some instances. Furthermore, it contributes to developing more convincing counter-narratives to combat extremist discourse by studying the stylistic features of the extremist language.