Linguistic Style Research Articles

Word and memory of Ivan Drobnyi

The author of the article explores the individual linguistic style of Ivan Semenovych Drobnyi, a writer of the Sixties from Cherkasy region, in particular the language of his poetic texts. It is determined that the poet’s style represents the linguistic aesthetics of Ukrainian literature of the second half of the twentieth century, and the stylistic feature of I. Drobnyi’s language thinking reveals the connection of verbal associative images with realities, phenomena of Ukrainian nature, history of the native land, environmental problems and the inner world of a person in love with his land. There is a renewal of traditional poetic metaphors (the book of nature). The poet reads the book of the farmer, and compares the grains of poetry to the golden grains of the field. A conversation with nature always ends with a clear aphoristic thought that reveals broader, sometimes unexpected connections between words and concepts that acquire symbolic meaning. The contexts of aestheticization and symbolization of such individual linguistic images as rainbow, rain, willow, path are highlighted, the associative field of which is expanded by the author with the concepts of modern reality. The author interprets the meaning of the original poeticized image of winter crops as a symbol of the dying and resurrection of nature. The tradition of the Ukrainian poetic word combines the concepts of the rainbow and the Dnipro, but only in the poetry of Ivan Drobnyi the entire rainbow is «according to Vasyl Symonenko». The author emphasizes the simple, uncomplicated rhythmic and intonational structure of the poem, the song folk rhythms in the poetry of I. Drobnyi and at the same time records the transitions in it from the high poetic word to the lyrical confession, from philosophical reflections to evaluative, witty statements filled with colloquial phrases. The article concludes that the poetic language of the Cherkasy region writer Ivan Drobnyi is a grateful source of research on the problem of STYLE AND MEMORY. With his lyrical texts, the poet draws attention to the richness of the Ukrainian literary language, makes us think about the historical variability of the lexicon of human civilization and about eternity, the value of the fundamental connection between man and the «eternal writings» of nature. His philosophical reflections on the agricultural culture of Ukrainians, the history and nature of his native land, often embodied in a perfect aphoristic form, enrich the vocabulary of linguistic and aesthetic signs of Ukrainian culture, and actualize precedent names and precedent lexemes, phrases of the Ukrainian language. Ivan Drobnyi’s individual style preserves the memory of the folk style of Ukrainian poetic language, which organically combines the linguistic aesthetics of folk songs and the philosophy of folk conversation.

Constructing a New Girl in Meiji Japan: The Japanese Translation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Sara Crewe

This article examines the earliest Japanese translation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Sara Crewe, Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s (1888), to illuminate how Shizuko Wakamatsu (1864–1892), one of the first Japanese female translators, constructed a girl’s complex psychology with her unique narrative techniques and innovative linguistic styles. By adding new layers to a girl’s inner voice, Wakamatsu presented how the translation of Burnett’s story played a vital role in paving the way for the development of Japanese girls’ fiction in the Meiji period (1868–1912). Wakamatsu’s translation thus created a new literary arena in which young female readers could nurture their imagination and experience a sense of agency by reading stories about a character whom they could relate to.

Study of Style and Stylistics in Farley Mowat's People of the Deer

The article attempts to evaluate Farley Mowat's People of the Deer in terms of style and stylistic perspectives. Mowat (1921- 2014) is a well-known Canadian author. In the usage of the language resource, he has exhibited an excellent degree of competency. His styles of writing were an autobiographical fashion. With regard to linguistic and literary styles, the study examined style and stylistic trends. The researcher suggests that the study would be helpful for the students of linguistics and literature in the future. This study will not provide a detailed description of all stylistic devices; rather, it will provide a picture of the traditional flouted as well as variations that Mowat has introduced. Style, Stylistics, Alliteration, Repetition, Collocation, and so on are all examples of major literary and linguistic stylistics.

Effects of linguistic style on persuasiveness of word-of-mouth messages with anonymous vs. identifiable sources

Effects of linguistic style on persuasiveness of word-of-mouth messages with anonymous vs. identifiable sources

COLLOQUIAL LANGUAGE USED IN MOVIE SCRIPT ADA APA DENGAN CINTA 1

This study is conducted to examine colloquial expression in the movie script Ada Apa dengan Cinta I. Colloquial Language is the linguistic style used for casual communication. The method applied in this study is qualitative approach. The data shows that there are 28 occurances of colloquial expression in the movie script. The expressions involve five types. They are slang, jargon, provanity, contraction and idiom. The most dominat expression used in the movie is slang with 42.9% occurances. The second position is provanity with 25% occurances. Then, the next level is jargon with 17.9%, contraction with 10.7%, and the last is idiom with only 3.5% occurances. The result shows that the movie script presents a casual conversation. Most situation of the conversation is informal. Moreover, this movie script is identical with teenagers as the most characters are teenagers. The teenagers tend to use such casual conversations. Besides, the result proves that this movie script also presents a local dialect of Bahasa Indonesia. It is Jakarta dialect since the setting is in that region. Therefore, it is concluded that this movie is characterized with Jakarta dialect and teenager’s casual conversation.

Stance in narration: Finding structure in complex sociolinguistic variation

AbstractStancetaking is a complex linguistic practice at the levels of both function and form, and as such is difficult to analyze in a narrow variable context. Instead of treating stance as a linguistic variable in the variationist sense, we analyze how participants use different types and forms of stancetaking in a specific speech event, the re‐narration of a story. A combined view of the range of different options used by speakers allows us to describe similarities and differences among them as well as to identify two groups with distinct stance styles. At the methodological level, the contribution demonstrates the utility of cluster analysis for research on linguistic style.

Gender/power relationships in fictional conflict talk at the workplace: Analyzing television dramatic dialogue in The Newsroom

This study uses both conversation analysis (CA) and quantitative analysis to investigate a hitherto unexplored aspect of television dramatic dialogue: conflict talk at the workplace. Specifically, this study scrutinized 63 conflict-talk excerpts from the American TV series, The Newsroom, to explore how, in screenwriter-scripted dialogue, characters of both genders with different institutional positions (i.e., different levels of positional power) use linguistic devices to negotiate, contest, and/or assert power during conflict talk. The results of the study indicate that (1) both female and male characters in the series made frequent use of conflict talk-associated linguistic devices for power contestation and negotiation, hence displaying noticeable deviations from stereotypical gender-specific linguistic styles (especially for the female characters) and challenging established gender stereotypes, (2) power relationship was shown to be dynamic rather than static during conflict talk, and (3) the screenwriter-scripted uses and deviated uses of the typical/stereotypical linguistic devices and styles helped with characterization in the show. Furthermore, the results regarding cross-gender power contestation/negotiation in workplace conflict talk presented in this TV series support some existing research findings regarding gender stereotypes and power negotiations in both real-life and TV dramatic dialogue in general.

The German Standard and Short Authentic and Hubristic Pride Scales

Abstract. The authentic and hubristic pride (A&HP) model is the domineering paradigm in pride research. Authentic pride (AP) comprises feelings of accomplishment and self-worth, whereas hubristic pride (HP) includes conceit and arrogance. We provide a German version of the A&HP scale ( Tracy & Robins, 2007 ), the GAHPS. We found a good fit for a two-factor solution. Internal consistencies were high. Nomological validity was supported for personality, self-esteem, and narcissism (Study 1, N = 569), status (Study 2, N = 565), and other emotions (Study 3, N = 204). In Study 4 ( N = 184), AP and HP had different associations with prosocial and antisocial behavior. We found high self-other agreement (109 dyads) for AP but not for HP. Further, people used different words to describe AP and HP when they described themselves and peers, thus suggesting that the two forms are associated with different linguistic styles. Finally, using an Ant Colony Optimization algorithm, we derived a short form for the scale. Researchers are advised to choose the standard or short scale, depending on the research purpose. This research broadens the validity testing of the A&HP model and, for the first time, provides linguistic correlates of the two forms of pride.

Speech And Thought Representation of the Split Personality Between the Narrator and Tyler Durden In Fight Club By Chuck Palahniuk

This research is to analyze the stylistics elements of speech and thought of the narrator’s and his split personality, Tyler Durden in Fight Club (1996) is Chuck Palahniuk. The analysis employs Geoffrey Leech and Michael Short’s theory of speech and thought representation as presented in Paul Simpson’s stylistics guidebook. The method of data collection is close reading the novel and then analyzing them with descriptive qualitative method. The research shows that the narrator is prominently represented thought representation while Tyler Durden most represented by speech representation. Through the progression of the plot’s beginning, middle, and end part, the narrator and Tyler’s characterizations and development as split personalities can be seen by their speech and thought representations. By analyzing both the narrator and Tyler Durden’s speech and thought representation, it can be concluded that linguistic style choices are essential tools used by the author to enhance the reading experience.Keywords: Fight Club; novel; stylistics; speech and thought representation; split personality

The impact of task description linguistic style on task performance: a text mining of crowdsourcing contests

PurposeExisting studies on the relationship between task description and task performance are insufficient, with many studies considering description length rather than content to measure quality or only evaluating a single aspect of task performance. To address this gap, this study analyzes the linguistic styles of task descriptions from 2,545 tasks on the Taskcn.com crowdsourcing platform.Design/methodology/approachAn empirical analysis was completed for task description language styles and task performance. The paper used text mining tool Simplified Chinese Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count to extract eight linguistic styles, namely readability, self-distancing, cognitive complexity, causality, tentative language, humanizing personal details, normative information and language intensity. And it tests the relationship between the eight language styles and task performance.FindingsThe study found that more cognitive complexity markers, tentative language, humanized details and normative information increase the quantity of submissions for a task. In addition, more humanized details and normative information in a task description improves the quality of task. Conversely, the inclusion of more causal relationships in a task description reduces the quantity of submissions. Poorer readability of the task description, less self-estrangement and higher language intensity reduces the quality of the task.Originality/valueThis study first reveals the importance of the linguistic styles used in task descriptions and provides a reference for how to attract more task solvers and achieve higher quality task performance by improving task descriptions. The research also enriches existing knowledge on the impact of linguistic styles and the applications of text mining.

Meta-learning for fake news detection surrounding the Syrian war

SummaryIn this article, we pursue the automatic detection of fake news reporting on the Syrian war using machine learning and meta-learning. The proposed approach is based on a suite of features that include a given article's linguistic style; its level of subjectivity, sensationalism, and sectarianism; the strength of its attribution; and its consistency with other news articles from the same “media camp”. To train our models, we use FA-KES, a fake news dataset about the Syrian war. A suite of basic machine learning models is explored, as well as the model-agnostic meta-learning algorithm (MAML) suitable for few-shot learning, using datasets of a modest size. Feature-importance analysis confirms that the collected features specific to the Syrian war are indeed very important predictors for the output label. The meta-learning model achieves the best performance, improving upon the baseline approaches that are trained exclusively on text features in FA-KES.

Interpretation of the Road and Associated Realities in the First French Translation of Mikhail Lermontov’s Novel “A Hero of Our Time”

The anthropological turn in humanitarian thought stimulated the interest in studying the linguistic personality and individual translator's style. The paper analyses that of A. A. Stolypin (Mongo), a well-known person to the specialists of Russian literature due to his relationships with Mikhail Lermontov, a famous Russian poet. The publication of Lermontov’s novel “A Hero of Our Time” became at the time a significant event in the emerging literary life of Russia marked by Western aesthetic influences. The first French translation of this emblematic novel appeared in 1843 in the Parisian newspaper “La Démocratie pacifique: journal des intérêts des gouvernements et des peuples”. It was made by mentioned above A. A. Stolypin (Mongo), the poet’s close relative and comrade-in-arms who had reasons to leave Russia for some time. The philologists have long known about this translation, but it never became the subject of a close analysis. Filling the existing gap, we aim to introduce this notable translation into scientific circulation. The present paper is part of our research project which is based on Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope, since the road chronotope is a crucial component of Lermontov’s novel. Coupled with the concept of “thematic grid” by I. V. Arnold, it forms the theoretical framework for the current study. To enhance its statistical validity, we trans-formed the Russian edition of the novel and Stolypin’s French translation into digital research corpus. Through the lens of the above theoretical tools, we view the most frequent lexical units denominating the specific road realities, including those of the North Caucasus, as they are key thematic characteristics of time and place. Therefore, their interpretation may serve to evaluate the reproducibility of the “thematic grid” and reveal the nature of the most consistently repeated trаnslator’s solutions. An additional contextual analysis using the reverse translation completes the data and serves for a more detailed and contrasted illustration of the translator’s style. Our analysis reveals the existence of a certain “blurring” of the “thematic grid” in the target text generally due to the use of specification of meaning, hyponyms instead of terms with a broader meaning. But this feature of Stolypin’s translator style does not hinder the adequate recreation of the source text and allows the reader to feel the originality of the time and space in which the events, closely related to the Caucasus Mountain region, developed.

An Investigation to Conversations to Identify the Language Style in a Movie: A Study on Sociolinguistics

The aims of this investigation will be to describe the language style based on Spider-Martin Man's Joos: far from home films and to identify the dominant language styles of the movie "Spider-Man: far from home." The analyzes are based on Martin Joo's theory's five types of linguistic style: frozen, formal, consultive, casual, and intimate. Qualitative research design was used in the research. Content or document analysis was used by researchers. The information is gathered by watching the film and the conversation containing the communication language is detected. Then classify according to the language styles found in the film and find the main kinds of language. The results of this research are as follows in the Spider-Man section: Far From the Home." These five language-style types are Frozen made up of two data (6,7%), formal three (10%), consultants of six data (20%), casual eleven (36,7%) and intimacy consisting of eight data. The following are the types of language-styles (26,6 percent ). The Casual style is the most dominant type than other types from the result of the percentage. In last place, the style is frozen

Register as a Language Variation: A Linguistics Study of Advertising, Scientific and Official Writing

This paper considered register as a language variation in English Language. The register of civil service also known as official writing, advertisement and scientific writing are discussed in great details. The study was based on the premise that language is used in different ways to achieve set goals. The achievement of this set goal of a society results to growth and development of that given society. The paper considered language register as an important element of linguistic style used by different writers in different fields to effectively pass their message across to their readers. This paper equally discusses the scientific writing and advertisement register as the different registers used while elaborately paying attention to their differences in diction, sentence variety, clarity and conciseness. The style of writing in the civil service register is seen as being peculiar to the officialese and therefore is restricted to the officialdom. Poetic devices as a linguistic style were also identified as language register of advertisement. A good understanding of the Standard English will enhance a better appropriation of register in different fields of learning. The researcher used a descriptive research approach to collect data. Data collected were interpreted based on the context of the different sentences. The researcher recommends amongst other things that the officialese, scientific and advertisement writers go through proper training and retraining on the use of English language at its standard status.

Choose your words carefully: Harnessing the language of crowdfunding for success

When it comes to raising money via crowdfunding, the language used in campaign narratives matters. Little practical guidance has been offered to those wishing to use crowdfunding concerning how to tailor the language in a crowdfunding campaign to enhance funding prospects. We take insights generated in academic research and distill those down to practical guidance for crowdfunding users. Here, we focus on two important aspects of language. First, we highlight how language that provides insight into the entrepreneurs’ personality—words expressing positivity, charisma, resilience, or narcissism—relates to funding. Second, we outline how various linguistic styles used to describe the general topics of the campaign relate to funding. Our work is particularly applicable to one of the most popular forms of crowdfunding: rewards-based crowdfunding.

Signaling green! firm ESG signals in an interconnected environment that promote brand valuation

Today’s interconnected environment is characterized by ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance), networks of people, organizations, and devices that are continuously interacting, conversing, and exchanging information. These forms of communication indicate that information sharing, signaling, and brand value creation have evolved in the past decade. This study examines brand valuation through two fundamental questions: (1) What ESG achievements do firms share and signal information about? and (2) How do firms share and signal this information in today’s interconnected environment? We find that automotive brands signal their ESG achievements in products, people, and a history of financial performance. These brands signal to consumers by communicating advertising spending, research and development investments, social media participation, ESG reputation, and appropriate linguistic styles. Automotive brands can signal ESG information for brand valuation directly and interactively through social media, the latter of which provides evidence of brand value co-creation.

Gendered language differences in public communication? The case of municipal tweets

Prior research has shown that gender-based leadership differences can influence organizational functions and behaviour, including strategy, resource allocation, and culture development. It therefore follows that gender-based leadership differences may impact communication. Building on research identifying gendered differences in language use, this study explored Twitter content differences among municipalities in the United States, differentiated by the level of gender-based representation at both the executive (mayoral) and legislative (council/commission) levels. The results uncovered commonly accepted gendered language differences based on mayoral gender, though the influence of council representation partially deviated from accepted differences. The study results form a foundation for larger investigations into gender-based impacts on social media communication and the linguistic styles necessary for maximum engagement.

Sociolinguistics Analysis on Language Style Form at the Movie Script of Papillon

This research discusses language style at the movie script of Papillon. This research aims to classify the type of language style and the functions of the speakers’ utterances in using language style at the movie script of Papillon. The data source of this research was YouTube “Papillon” which was aired on September, 26th 2018. This study utilized theories of Martin Joos' types of language styles and Roman Jakobson's function. Data from the Papillon Movie Script. Researchers have implemented qualitative research designs to answer the research question. The researchers used documentation as a tool for research. The researchers found 30 language-style data sets as a result of their inves-tigation. The scientists discovered many linguistic styles. The styles are as follows: 1 data point or 3%, 6 data points or 20%, were discovered in frozen style; 11 data points or 37%, casual style 6 to 20, and intimate style 6 to 20 were found in consultancies. The following five roles were revealed in the language style: expressive, guiding, referential, metalinguistic and phasic. There were 6 data or 20 percent of expressive function; the directive works 3 or 10 percent, the reference function found 8 or 27%, the metalinguistic function discovered 7 or 23% and the phatic function discovered 6 data or 20%. No poetic function is available in the film.

Jypp, Dompa och Jackson Pollock - Berättelser om plats, förortiska och överklass i ett innerstadsgymnasium

Jypp, Dompa and Jackson Pollock: Narratives on place, urban vernaculars, and upper class at a prestigious upper secondary school. Labelling a linguistic style by appointing it to certain groups of speakers and where they live can be a deeply problematic enterprise as both identities, language use and space become fixed and limited. In Sweden the speech style called Rinkeby Swedish (RS) has become an icon of ethnic Otherness, educational failure, and of an aggressive sexist and homophobic masculinity – ascribed to a fixed locality in the outskirts of the big cities. In this paper we have turned our gaze towards a place that have typically not been associated with RS before: a Stockholm elite school. The analysis reveals how a group of students, illustrated by how the participant Wille, perform authenticity and indexically anchor their linguistic practices and epistemics in various linguistic contexts. In a case study, we explore how the participants talk about and use not one but many different linguistic styles. We argue that the participants employ these styles as resources to comment on locality as well as social hierarchies in the school and the society at large.

The focus, function and framing of feedback information: linguistic and content analysis of in-text feedback comments

In-text comments, in the form of annotations on students’ work, are a form of feedback information that should guide students to take action. Both the focus of the in-text comments, and the ways in which they are linguistically communicated, have potential to impact upon the way in which they are perceived by students. This study reports on an analysis of 2101 in-text comments added by markers to 60 summative essays from two disciplines. The majority of comments, regardless of the grade awarded, were found to be directed at the task performance, rather than relating to the level of process or self-regulation. Work awarded higher grades received fewer annotations; these essays were found to include more feedback comments expressing a positive tone, with limited opportunities for informing further development. Work awarded lower grades mainly received corrective comments, as well as comments characterised by interrogative language and words expressing risk. It is argued that the linguistic style may influence engagement with in-text comments, impacting upon students’ affective and emotional states, and their level of cognitive engagement with the feedback information. Recommendations for markers’ practices are identified, to facilitate the opportunities for engagement and action that in-text comments might afford.