This study offers an analysis of punctuation stylistics in Russian sentimentalist literature, focusing on the deliberate use of punctuation marks to align with the aesthetic principles of this literary movement. The research material is drawn from the first publication of Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin's novella “ Poor Liza ”, which appeared in his own journal “ Moscow magazine ” in 1792. The relevance of this investigation lies in its application of a specific historical approach that takes into account both the particularities of late eighteenth-century Russian punctuation usage and codification practices as well as broader European sentimental trends. It has been established that the stylistic hallmark of Russian sentimentalism involves the linguistic expression of emotional sensitivity accompanying narrative dynamics, capable of evoking empathy in readers. In objectifying this stylistic focus, special prominence is given to a microsystem consisting of question marks, exclamation points, dashes, and ellipses. The expressive deployment of these four punctuation marks allows for precise graphic representation of emotionally charged speech by narrators and characters alike. Ultimately, it is concluded that the emergence of punctuation stylistics finds its roots specifically within Russian sentimentalism.

This article examines the emotive component in the semantics of English idioms in the short stories of William Somerset Maugham. The subject of analysis is the emotional connotation of idioms and their role in creating artistic effect. The aim of the study is, first, to identify the features of the emotive component in idiomatic semantics and, second, to determine its functions. These functions include conveying characters' emotions and thematically deepening the text. The analysis focuses particularly on how idiomatic expressions shape the psychological characterization, create atmosphere, and actualize the cultural context within Maugham's style. The study is based on fundamental theories of emotiveness (V.I. Shakhovsky, V.A. Maslova) and K. Izard's theory of differential emotions. A detailed analysis of key idioms is conducted using short stories. The study employs a comprehensive methodology combining semantic, contextual, and stylistic analysis. Elements of cognitive linguistics are applied to explore the emotive connotation of idioms in depth, allowing us to analyze the relationship between the figurative basis of an expression and its emotional impact. This study contributes to the field by providing a systematic analysis of the emotive potential of idioms in Maugham's stories using a comprehensive approach, combining cognitive linguistics, semantic, and stylistic analysis. The study demonstrates how Maugham uses idioms to convey subtle psychological nuances, irony, and key plot twists. The findings reveal that idioms in Maugham's stories not only convey characters' emotions but also act as a crucial mechanism for the plot development, psychological characterization, and creation of a unique atmosphere. The findings have practical value for literary analysis and English literature teaching methods. The emotive component plays a key role in enhancing the textual expressiveness, ensuring a deeper emotional perception by the reader.

It is often claimed that strategy consultants exert an important influence on strategy processes of organizations ascribing a pointedly analytical way of working and thus thinking. This paper examines the cognitive styles of strategy consultants, specifically the balance between analytical and intuitive thinking. We use a quantitative research design employing statistical methods such as linear models, path analysis, non-parametric analyses, and principal component analysis - methods that go beyond standard applications and allow for more comprehensive modeling of interrelated factors. Our survey data of strategy consultants provides a robust analysis of cognitive styles, biases, debiasing approaches, and relevant control variables. The results reveal that while strategy consultants generally favor analytical thinking, senior consultants increasingly rely on intuition as their experience grows. The findings also highlight the role of bias awareness and debiasing measures in decision-making processes.

Abstract This article is devoted to a stylistic analysis of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Famagusta, Cyprus, known as Famagusta Cathedral (now the Lala Mustafa Paşa Mosque), begun around 1300. The special relevance of the cathedral comes from the fact that it owes its shape to masters well acquainted with the buildings of both France and Germany, and thus it demonstrates the complex and at the same time ambiguous stylistic character of the architecture around the year 1300. This study goes beyond purely formal analysis of the church, however: The case of Famagusta Cathedral and its anonymous designer provides a starting point for a discussion of the modes of long-distance transfer of architectural forms in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, which in turn are inextricably linked to the question of the education and career patterns of master masons and to the ways in which they were employed by clients from distant countries.

The article focuses on the illustrations to Hwang Sun-Mi’s novel “The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly” (2000). This popular work of modern Korean children’s literature has been translated into numerous languages, including Russian (2015). Kim Hwang-Young’s and Yun Ye-Ji’s illustrations, which demonstrate different approaches to the visual interpretation of the text, were chosen as reference illustrations. A formal and stylistic analysis of the illustrations revealed two distinct approaches to organising visual material based on the book, which represent two distinct vectors of the New Humanism of the 21st century.

Funeral tributes in Igboland, though central to grief, identity, and communal values, remain underexplored in scholarship despite their presence in programme booklets and memorial publications. This study analyses thirty written tributes from five southeastern Nigerian States, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo, using Relevance Theory and Mutual Contextual Beliefs (MCB). Findings highlight stylistic features such as metaphor, repetition, cultural symbolism, and narrative personalization, showing that tributes serve both as memorials and as vehicles of cultural continuity, collective memory, and ideological reinforcement. Choices like ancestral metaphors, communal references, and rhetorical intensification enhance emotional resonance and situate the deceased within shared cultural contexts. The study recommends further research into oral and digital tributes, especially on social media, to understand how contemporary Igbo mourning practices are evolving.

This study aims to identify the stylistic features of the literary mode Yan Lianke terms as "mythorealism" in the English translations of his novels, through corpus stylistic analysis. Using a corpus of nine translated works by Yan and a reference corpus of English translations of contemporary Chinese fiction, the analysis employs Wmatrix to detect statistically overused semantic domains and LancsBox to investigate their collocational networks and usage contexts. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, the study identifies five foregrounded semantic patterns: political discourse, spatial narrative, natural environment, color symbolism and the supernatural. The findings show that political discourse intertwines historical events with allegorical critique; spatial narrative delineates symbolic boundaries between social and psychological worlds; color symbolism, particularly the recurrent use of red, conveys culturally resonant yet ambivalent meanings; and supernatural elements extend realism into metaphysical and philosophical realms. Supported by a representative bilingual case study which illustrates the retention of core semantic structures, the study suggests that despite translator mediation, these patterns largely reflect the enduring thematic and stylistic characteristics of Yan's fiction. These findings offer a corpus-based empirical grounding for mythorealism and present a replicable framework for bridging semantic-domain statistics and stylistic interpretation in the study of translated literature.

This article offers an original historical–musicological reassessment of Giovanni Bononcini’s vocal art, arguing that his reputation has been shaped disproportionately by a Handel‑centric narrative and by anecdotal accounts of rivalry rather than sustained engagement with his musical texts. It seeks to address a persistent lacuna in Baroque historiography shaped by a predominantly "Handel-centric" narrative, which has tended to marginalize Bononcini's artistic profile and historical agency. By reconstructing his trajectory from early training in Modena and Bologna to professional activity in Rome, Vienna, Berlin, and, most prominently, London during the Royal Academy of Music period, the study highlights the ways in which Bononcini negotiated the distinct demands of court patronage and the commercial theatre, and how these contexts contributed to both the consolidation and erosion of his reputation. Methodologically, the study combines contextual biographical reconstruction with genre‑sensitive close reading and stylistic analysis (formal design, text‑setting, and orchestration) of selected representative works from opera, cantata, and oratorio. Across these case studies, itshow how Bononcini’s instrumental background—especially his command of bass‑line agency and continuo rhetoric—contributes to a distinctive vocal profile that balances lyrical clarity with structural economy and affective precision. The findings refine current historiography by restoring Bononcini’s place within early eighteenth‑century transnational operatic culture and by identifying underexplored sources and performance‑practice questions for further research. The article concludes with a brief review of current scholarship and proposes that advances in critical editing, systematic manuscript cataloguing, and performance-based research are essential for a fuller reassessment and sustained rediscovery of Bononcini's oeuvre.

This empirical study examines the relationship between individual psychological differences and English language learning outcomes among university students. A sample of 80 students (mean age = 19.8 years, SD = 1.2) from a large urban university participated in this research. The study utilized standardized instruments including the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) to assess temperament, the Riding Cognitive Style Analysis to measure cognitive styles (verbal-imagery and wholist-analytic dimensions), and Cambridge English Placement Test to evaluate language proficiency. Results indicate significant correlations between extraversion and speaking performance (r = 0.42, p < 0.01), between imagery cognitive style and vocabulary acquisition (r = 0.38, p < 0.01), and between analytic style and grammar comprehension (r = 0.44, p < 0.01). Multiple regression analysis revealed that cognitive style dimensions predicted 31% of variance in overall English proficiency (R² = 0.31, p < 0.001). Based on these findings, we propose a framework for personalized language instruction that considers learner temperament and cognitive preferences. The study demonstrates that individual differences significantly impact language learning processes and outcomes, suggesting the need for differentiated pedagogical approaches in EFL contexts.

Rising acute myocardial infarction (AMI) incidence in young adults coincides with increased mobile phone addictione, which has been connected to poor sleep quality. However, mechanisms linking mobile overuse to sleep disturbances, particularly the mediating roles of coping styles and psychological distress, remain underexplored. This study investigated the association between mobile phone addictione and sleep quality in AMI patients aged 18–45 years, examining coping styles, anxiety, and depression as potential mediators. In this study, a cross-sectional study (January 2023–January 2025) enrolled 125 patients via convenience sampling. The results showed that mobile phone addiction is positively associated with poor sleep in young patients with AMI, which may be related to coping styles and symptoms of anxiety/depression. Holistic interventions addressing digital habits, mental health, and coping strategies may improve the sleep quality in this population.

The Internet has given start to new types of communication systems and language contexts, one of which is Telegram discourse. The increasing popularity of this messenger makes it an urgent academic task to describe its language. The authors compared the stylistic features of Russian and English e-communication in Telegram publications. The article reviewed available definitions of the term Telegram discourse in modern media linguistics in order to define the features that make it different from the language of other online platforms. The Russian and English Telegram publications covered a wide variety of topics (psychology, lifestyle, literature, politics, journalism, art, cinema, TV shows, fashion, education, etc.) chosen by continuous sampling. The comparative study made it possible to define the universal aspects while revealing the language-specific stylistic peculiarities. The comparative stylistic analysis covered all linguistic levels, i.e., graphics, phonetics, syntax, vocabulary, and semantics. The research revealed language-related patterns in the use of stylistic devices and expressive means on phono-graphical, lexical, and syntactical levels. The phono-graphical level of Telegram texts was found rich in graphons, capitalization, multiplication, and onomatopoeia. The lexical level contained metaphors, allusions, irony, and idioms. The syntax was associated with gradation, parallel constructions, and rhetorical questions. In general, the expressive means and stylistic devices used in publicistic Telegram discourse was full of cliches. However, Russian and English Telegram stylistics differed on every level. The research results might be used in university courses of stylistics, Internet linguistics, lexicology, and foreign languages.

This paper presents a semantic-structural and stylistic analysis of abbreviations in modern English. The study examines the main types of abbreviations acronyms, initialisms, clippings, and blends and analyzes their structural formation and semantic characteristics. Special attention is paid to the stylistic functions of abbreviations in different discourse domains, including scientific, technical, media, and everyday communication. The research highlights how abbreviations contribute to language economy, expressiveness, and communicative efficiency, while also reflecting social, technological, and cultural changes. The findings demonstrate that abbreviations are not only structural language units but also stylistically marked elements that play an important role in shaping modern English vocabulary and discourse practices.

Purpose of the study: This study aims to identify and describe the types and functions of literary elements (unsur susastra) present in the panyandra (narrative speeches) of Surakarta-style Javanese traditional wedding ceremonies. Methodology: This descriptive study analyzed written data from the books Gita Wicara Jawi and Tuntunan Kagem Para Panatacara Tuwin Pamedhar Sabda, along with audio and video recordings of wedding narrations. Data were collected through listening, reading, note-taking, and analyzed using stylistic analysis and semantic validity with expert judgment. Main Findings: The study identified ten types of literary elements used in the panyandra, including tembung saroja, tembung garba, kerata basa, paribasan, pepindhan, candra, purwakanthi, and basa rinengga. These elements serve seven language functions: personal, instrumental, interactional, regulatory, representational, heuristic, and imaginative. Novelty/Originality of this study: This research provides the first detailed analysis of literary elements within Surakarta-style Javanese wedding panyandra, offering new insights into their aesthetic and cultural functions, which can enhance appreciation and serve as a reference for event narrators (pranata adicara) and cultural preservation efforts.

Phobias unsettle not only the emotions but the cognitive and linguistic structures through which fear is experienced and expressed. This article examines how contemporary memoirs, Sarah Chihaya's Bibliophobia, Nicolette Heaton-Harris's Living with Emetophobia: Coping with Extreme Fear of Vomiting, Sara Benincasa's Agorafabulous! Dispatches from my bedroom and Russell Norris's Red Face: How I Learnt to Live with Social Anxiety, translate the somatic immediacy of panic into language. Drawing on Mary Helen Immordino-Yang's Emotion-Cognition Framework, which proposes that emotional and reflective systems are neurally interdependent, the study identifies integration nodes: moments in the text where sensory chaos and self-reflective commentary converge. These nodes mark the transformation of panic into narrative thought, showing how linguistic markers such as causal connectives, temporal shifts and ironic self-observation mediate between affective arousal and conceptual understanding.Through close reading and cognitive stylistic analysis, the article demonstrates that phobic memoirs enact, rather than merely describe, the process of cognitive-emotional regulation. Fragmented syntax and recursive phrasing reproduce the physiology of panic, while humour and irony re-establish agency by reframing fear as discourse. Across all four memoirs, phobia emerges not as a static pathology but as a dynamic linguistic event in which narrative enables emotional integration. The study argues that recognising these textual mechanisms can enrich clinical approaches to anxiety disorders by foregrounding narrative as a medium of adaptation and repair.

This paper deals with methods of creating terms in English science fiction using literature and cinema as the source. The units under study are classified according to their functional activity and lexical-semantic groups. The most active method applied in this research is statistical sampling which allows classifying grammemes according to the word-formation method used. The semantic method enabled the study of units through their explicit meaning and their representation in the context. Stylistic analysis has opened up prospects for studying word-play and secondary nomination processes. Among morphological methods of word formation, the prefix and suffix methods have the highest functional activity nominating humans (human-like beings or mechanisms) or machines in the futuristic reality. Compounding is a powerful way of coining grammemes which name equipment or machines used for exploration of distant worlds. Abbreviation is represented by a wide range of subtypes, one of which, namely acronyms, is actively integrated in the modern English language. Non-morphological means of word formation are generally represented by the lexical-semantic method as a means of reinterpretation of already existing lexemes by extending their primary semantics or using word-play. Other subgroups of non-morphological methods of word building are represented by sporadic examples.

Trainee financial distress and academic burnout: A moderation analysis of coping styles and program support.

The aim of this article is to examine the peculiarities of the functioning of such a widespread narrative technique in the 20th and 21st centuries as the present historical tense. Based on the material of H. Mantel's novel "The Mirror and the Light," which is the final part of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, it analyzes the grammatical, psychological, and fictional aspects of using praesens historicum in free indirect speech, allowing the author to combine the subjective perception of time by the character with the dramatization of historical narrative, as well as to compare the events with paintings created by an artist. Special attention is paid to the role of the present tense in creating a fictional space oriented towards theatricality, eternal return, and reversibility of time, as well as in linking the individual memory of the hero with the philosophical reflection on history. The methodology of analysis is based on the combination of linguistic stylistic and narrative analyses, which allows us to consider how the grammatical technique transforms into an element of artistic poetics and influences the perception of historical time in the text. It is shown that the choice of this tense form becomes an important artistic and linguistic stylistic device that ensures the cohesion of the text and forms a particular concept of time in the trilogy. Possible areas of application for the results include commentary on Russian-language editions, revision of translation, and teaching linguistic stylistic analysis. The novelty of the work lies in demonstrating how, at the level of narration, praesens historicum forms the integrity of the text, ensuring the cohesion of disparate episodes and engaging the reader in the subjective perception of events. By combining the present tense with verbs of perception and cognitive activity, an effect of psychological presence is created, and the fate of Thomas Cromwell unfolds as a dramatic action rather than as something completed, described in the form of a chronicle. The introduction of a theatrical dimension and reference to the legacy of W. Shakespeare allows the narrative to be perceived as a stage where historical events are played out again and again.

This paper presents a stylistic analysis of Jared Angira’s “No Coffin No Grave.” The analysis will be done by using only three of Widdowson’s stylistic patterns of analysing speech or writing, which include phonology, imagery, and graphology. The linguistic description of these three items foregrounds the poet’s intended message and lends credence to its aesthetic literary value. The analysis is done using Marxism as the fundamental theoretical framework, with the meanings and thoughts of the poet expressed in the text through such patterns of usage. The method of sampling is purposive and draws from the secondary source of Jared Angira’s poem “No Coffin No Grave.” Based on Widdowson’s stylistic patterns, the study finds alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia under the phonological patterns. It also reveals that imagery was achieved through literary devices such as personification, metaphor, irony, allusion, and rhetorical questions. The study further finds that the use of a disjointed, unpunctuated writing style foregrounds a graphological deviation. The study therefore recommends the inclusion of “No Coffin No Grave” in the school curriculum and its use by civic organizations as a pedagogical tool to educate students and the populace on governance, corruption, and power.

Abstract Gustav Krug (1844–1902). Nietzsche’s Childhood Friend and Musical Companion. Following Martin Pernet’s genealogical and biographical study, this article focuses on the composer and jurist Gustav Krug as a musical advisor and discussion partner to Nietzsche. Starting out from the function of music in Nietzsche’s philosophical thinking, I examine Nietzsche’s and Krug’s joint music-making and exchanges about their own works as well as questions of compositional aesthetics and technique, before I offer a stylistic analysis of Krug’s surviving compositions. This allows us to round off our picture of Nietzsche’s childhood friend from a new perspective.

Intolerance of uncertainty plays a significant role in decision-making by shaping how individuals perceive, interpret, and react to uncertain situations. Consequently, this research seeks to explore the relationship between the five decision-making styles and intolerance of uncertainty. To conduct this study, we utilized the General Decision-Making Style Scale (GDMS) and the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS). A total of 131 participants were recruited from a university and other locations through SONA, a software program that helps universities manage research study participation, and social media platforms. The analysis of decision-making styles using a correlogram revealed significant correlations among them, indicating that these styles are not entirely independent. Intuitive decision-making correlated positively with both rational and spontaneous decision-making styles, while dependent decision-making was correlated positively with avoidant decision-making, which also correlated with spontaneous decision-making. These interconnections were accounted for in the regression analyses, ensuring that the relationship of intolerance of uncertainty in each decision-making style was assessed separately. The findings showed that individuals with higher intolerance of uncertainty were more likely to adopt an avoidant decision-making style and less likely to use a rational approach. Additionally, individuals who consider uncertainty "unfair" were more inclined toward dependent and avoidant decision-making styles. Moreover, the findings of this study can help individuals gain insight into their decision-making style and intolerance of uncertainty, enhancing self-awareness and enabling them to recognize their responses to ambiguity while developing strategies for more effective decision-making.