Stylistic Features Research Articles

Poetics of Lyrical Prose: Genre and Style Issues

The article analyzes the correlation of the concepts of «lyric prose» and «lyricism in prose», analyzer the writer`s lyric prose, principles and methods of its creation and this theoretical approach correlates with Kazakh literature. Literary and the oretical opinions of domestic and foreign scholars on this issue are systematized, conclusions are drawn about the aesthetic role of lyricism in prose. The problems in the definition of lyrical prose and the reasons why the boundaries of the genre cannot be clearly drawn have been focused on. In addition, information was given about lyrical prose research in Kazakh literature, the birth and development of the lyricism trend in Kazakh prose were discussed, and works that outweigh the lyrical aspect were mentioned. Information was given about the reflection of lyricism in the works of prominent personalities. Based on the critics' reasoning, a general definition of the concept of “lyrical character” is given. The evaluations made by the researchers have been analyzed extensively. The analysis of successful works in the lyrical aspect is carried out, the features of lyrical prose and its place in other traditional genres have been studied. The formation and development of lyrical prose in Kazakh literature, its genre and stylistic features are comprehensively considered. All the elements that make up the structure and content of lyrical prose, the ways of creating and arranging them, the effect of artist subjectivity on the creation process and narrative forms were examined.

Genre and stylistic features of Ukrainian fiction cinematography of the period of independence

The article is devoted the definition of genre and stylistic features of fiction films produced in Ukraine from 1991 to 2022. Using the analysis of theoretical works on film studies, genre theory, semiology and film history, it is proposed to define the concept of “genre” as a set of repetitive syntactic and semantic structures, the main connections of the genre with the socio-cultural and historical context are outlined. In particular, after analyzing 949 audiovisual projects from the «Base of National Films of Ukraine», which have been created during the period of Independence, it was found that the largest number of produced audiovisual works belongs to the fiction type of cinema. The presence of syntactic and semantic structures of 46 genres has been identified according to the genre and thematic direction of fiction cinematography. It is proved that the most popular genre in production is drama – 25 % of the total number of feature films. This percentage is a significant advantage over the presence of other genres. Analysis of data from the box office of cinema distribution in Ukraine for 2020 has revealed discrepancies between the number of produced films of a certain genre and thematic direction and the preferences of Ukrainian viewers. In this way, the assumption that the predominance of certain genres in the production of Ukrainian audiovisual art reflects the cultural needs of Ukrainians has been refuted. Such a comparison also disproved the claim that the absence of certain genres in the Ukrainian media space testifies to the foreignness of the narrative structure of such films to the cultural characteristics of Ukrainians, because the top five audience preferences include, for example, the horror genre, which is minimally present in Ukrainian production. The results of the study have theoretical and practical significance for film production in Ukraine, and also form a research field for further study of the development of each individual genre present in Ukrainian audiovisual art of the period of Independence.

Language of Political Campaign: Unraveling the Linguistic Landscape in Billboard Advertisements

Billboard advertisements for legislative and senatorial campaigns are integral to the cityscape leading to the general elections, reflecting local political dynamics. This study examines the linguistic landscape in billboard advertisements for legislative and senator campaigns heading for the general election in Indonesia. A qualitative method was employed, gathering data from billboard advertisements across various city areas. Analysis was conducted on the language usage, stylistic features, word choice, sentence structure, and visual representations in these billboard advertisements. Findings indicate a variation in language usage, with standard Indonesian predominating but also a presence of local language mixtures. Stylistic features range from persuasive to informative, while word choice tends toward positively connotated terms. Sentence structures tend to be simple and direct, while visual representations emphasize the candidates and symbols reflecting political aspirations. These results depict candidates' complex communication strategies influencing voter opinions and attitudes. A profound understanding of this linguistic landscape is crucial for political observers and candidates to comprehend local political campaign dynamics and effective communication strategies. This study added a new dimension to understanding how political communication is manifested in public spaces. By focusing on billboards as an outdoor media, which often serves as a daily backdrop for many people, this study explores how language can effectively capture voters' attention and influence their political attitudes. Thus, this study is expected to significantly enrich the understanding of political linguistics and communication strategies in the context of election campaigns.

Рельефные плиты из баптистерия в Сплите: проблемы изучения

The baptistery of the city of Split on the eastern coast of the Adriatic in the IX-XI centuries was built in the small temple of the Diocletian's palace, and in the XIII century a font of 12 marble slabs appeared in it, six of which are covered with carvings; the rest of the plates are the spolias of antique sarcophagi and their reliefs are cut out. As a result of many years of research of the monument, all scientists agree that the plates with carvings were taken from the altar barrier of either the Split cathedral of St. Domnius (the former mausoleum of Diocletian), or the church of St. Peter and Moses in Solin. Versions of the identification of the figures on the slab with the image of the ruler on the throne, the figure standing next to and the figure lying below make up two large groups: the sitting figure is either Christ or a some king. Most researchers are inclined to two options: Croatian king Peter Kreshimir IV (1058-1074) or king Dimitar Zvonimir (1076-1089). The details of the subsequent existence of the monument are very interesting: in the hands of the standing figure there was previously an object, most likely a scroll, subsequently removed, and the inscription on the upper field of the slab was erased. In addition, the historical circumstances of the epoch are analyzed, including the weakening of Byzantine influence in the region in the XI century with the strengthening of western influence, which led to liturgical changes reflected in the architecture. The stylistic features of the monument make it possible to attract a number of regional analogies.

Classification of subject-spatial models of modern innovative poetry: variants and functional characteristics

In modern innovative Russian poetry, one of the key problems is the question of the interaction of the concepts “subject” and “space”, as well as the question of ways to rethink their semantic and functional content. As one of the variants of the compositional and stylistic analysis of the poetic text, we have proposed the concept of a subject-spatial model – a conditional image of the concepts “subject” and “space”, which serves to determine the relationship between them and the specifics of their functioning in the author’s poetics. This article discusses the models functioning in the texts of Kirill Korchagin, Galina Rymbu, Nikita Safonov and Yevgeniya Suslova, the classification of models is considered on several grounds: the number of model elements, the specifics of the relations between them and the forms of interaction. It is noted that the models functioning in the texts of the authors studied are multi-basic, each of them has a set of different parameters characterising the relationship between the elements from different points of view, which allows us to consider the specifics of the subject-spatial organisation of the text as a complex structure that reveals the semantic and stylistic features of poetics. The article concludes that the interaction of concepts is based on diffusion and interference, meanwhile the semantics of the subject and space become more complicated – the authors approach their understanding from a philosophical and pragmatic point of view. In addition, the article discusses the issue of trends in the development of subject-spatial relations in innovative Russian poetry.

Stylistic peculiarities of Edgar Poe’s and Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s gothic novellas

The article deals with the comparative analysis of stylistic features of selected short stories (novellas) by the American writers Edgar Poe and Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Using a set of methods (theoretical analysis, holistic text analysis, stylistic analysis), relying on the creative manifestos of the two authors, as well as on the results of stylistic analysis of the corpus of short stories, the authors of the article trace the continuity and distinctive features in the work of the two writers. The obtained results allow to state the presence of similar features in the short stories of Edgar Poe and Howard Lovecraft, such as gothic chronotope, mystical and fantastic elements, common type of narrator, characterised by a borderline state, and deliberate fear-mongering. At the same time, however, the texts of both authors demonstrate specific features. Poe’s Gothic novellas are characterised by increased psychologism, which manifests itself in the prevalence of such stylistic devices as repetition, gradation, aposiopeisis, rhetorical question and exclamation, which eloquently testify to the “inner horrorˮ of the characters. The high allusiveness of Poe’s short stories testifies to the close connection of the described events with reality. The prevailing stylistic devices of Lovecraft’s novellas (epithets, personifications) testify to the author’s attempt to breathe life into inanimate objects, to extract them from non-existence, and to make the reader experience a “cosmicˮ horror of the unknown and external. The author’s complicated syntax combined with irrational enumerative rows suggests that Lovecraft’s work might be influenced by modernist aesthetics.

ПРИЕМ ПОВТОРА В АЛТАЙСКИХ ГЕРОИЧЕСКИХ СКАЗАНИЯХ

Altai heroic tales are unique monuments of the people’s epic heritage. They act as a cultural code that preserved the originality of the ethnic worldview, traditions of the people, as well as the peculiarities of their poetic language. At the same time, the Altai epic has much in common and peculiar in comparison with the epics of other Turkic-speaking peoples. The study of the epic style originality is special interest for folkloristics. The relevance of this study is determined by the insufficient study of style features of the Altai people’s heroic tales. The scholarly novelty of the work consists in the fact that it is the first to study the types of repetition as one of the stylistic phenomena of the Altai epic. The purpose of this research is to study repetition as a stylistic phenomenon of folk poetics. The sources for the study were the heroic tales published in the series “Altai Bogatyrs”. An important criterion for selecting sources for the study was the observation of this phenomenon in authentic texts, where the features of the narrator’s living language are preserved to a greater extent. The study is based on the analysis of Altai heroic tales from different narrators and other folklore sources. The descriptive method, methods of comparison and generalization were also used in the work. As a result of the study, the types of repetitions found in the Altai epic were identified and described; their main functions were defined. It is established that repetition in folklore text is an important and multidimensional phenomenon. In heroic tales it is manifested at different levels. Repetitions of individual words and word combinations, phrases and whole episodes are distinguished. According to the frequency of use, there are twofold, threefold and more repetitions. Repetitions occur within a line, at the beginning, end or at the junction of poetic lines, forming such stylistic figures as anaphora, epiphora and epanaphora. Each type of repetition fulfills a certain function in the text. The study has shown that the functioning of repetitions in heroic tales differs in the activity of their use by narrators.

Life style, health seeking behaviour and nutritional status of commercial vehicle drivers in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

BackgroundHealth seeking behaviour, lifestyle characteristics and the working conditions of commercial vehicle drivers often foster unhealthy habits and increase their vulnerability to health inequalities, including overweight, obesity, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to examine the life style, dietary habit, health seeking behaviour and nutritional status of commercial vehicle drivers in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.MethodsThis descriptive and cross-sectional study adopted a simple random sampling technique to recruit 202 commercial vehicle drivers in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. A semi-structured interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to obtain information on demographics, life style and health care characteristics of the commercial vehicle drivers. The anthropometric indices (weight and Height) of the drivers were obtained and their body mass index (BMI) was determined using WHO classification. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics, and level of significance was set at p= 0.05.ResultsMean age of the drivers was 43 ± 5.2 years and majority (86%) of them have completed secondary education. The majority (59%) consume soft drinks at least once per week and 85% eat at least one meal outside their home daily, while 16% and 49% patronize herbal medicine/concoction and visit the pharmacy or chemist store to purchase drugs respectively as first point of care when sick. The prevalence of overweight and obesity among the commercial drivers was 20% and 33% respectively. There was a statistically significant relationship between elevated BMI and respondent’s age (p<0.05), level of education (P=0.05), physical inactivity (P<0.01) and frequency of alcohol consumption (P<0.05).ConclusionsThis study confirms high prevalence of overweight and obesity among the commercial vehicle drivers and its associated factors of poor nutritional habits, health and life style characteristics. Therefore, a comprehensive nutritional programme including behavioural change and communication that is context-specific targeted at commercial drivers should be implemented.

Stylistic Analysis of the Holy Icons from Saint George Church in Yenikoy, Istanbul

The main subject of the research is to analyse the multi-themed sacred proskynetarion icons in Yeniköy Ayios Yeoryios (St. George) Metochion Church, one of the three metochion churches of the Jerusalem Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul. Although it is known that the icons found in the metochion churches in Istanbul have not been studied before, the icons belonging to the church in Yeniköy from these structures were included in the research. Due to the limitations of the article, which prevented the evaluation of all the icons in the church, the research focused solely on the technical and stylistic features of the multi-themed proskynetarion icons. Proskynetarions, also known as the pilgrim icons, contain depictions of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem due to their characteristics. The presence of proskynetarions in this place is directly related to the fact that Yeniköy Ayios Yeoryios Church is a Metochion affiliated to the Jerusalem Patriarchate. Icons are accepted as important works of art in the frame of art history, as well as their liturgical role as manifestation and visual representations of the sacred. It is important to reveal such previously unpublished works, to evaluate them iconographically and to bring them to the art history literature with their semantic context. In the study, a brief historical overview of the status of the Jerusalem Orthodox Patriarchate and the relations between the two patriarchates is presented. At the same time, the location of the building, the architectural plan type, the periodical features in the exterior and interior decoration are mentioned.

«Дневник писателя» Ф. М. Достоевского за 1881 год в разновременных переводах Лэсс Кэррик на немецкий язык

The article examines the use of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Writer’s Diary” for 1881 in German culture in the early and second half of the 20th century, focusing on two translations of the work into German by the same translator with over fifty years’ difference: in 1907 and 1963. The research aims to identify significant differences in the translation strategy of Less Kaerrick in conveying the stylistic features of Dostoevsky, as presented in the “Writer’s Diary” for 1881. The paper explains the reasons for the interest in the work’s themes, provides the history of the translations of the “Writer’s Diary” into German, compares the structures of the original text and the two translations, and determines the differences in the translations influenced by the translator’s evolving approach towards the thematic priorities of the work. The scientific novelty of the study lies in making the translations of Dostoevsky’s “Writer’s Diary” for 1881 into German by Kaerrick the subject of literary research for the first time, leading to the introduction of new insights into the reception of Dostoevsky’s work in German-speaking countries. The results indicate that the chosen translation strategy of structural reduction and semantic selection from the original text results in a shift in the meaning accents of the work. However, in the 1963 translation, the translator attempts to overcome language asymmetry and bring the German reader closer to the meanings embedded by Dostoevsky in the pages of the “Writer’s Diary”.

Polyp Generalization via Diversifying Style at Feature-Level Space

In polyp segmentation, the latest notable topic revolves around polyp generalization, which aims to develop deep learning-based models capable of learning from single or multiple source domains and applying this knowledge to unseen datasets. A significant challenge in real-world clinical settings is the suboptimal performance of generalized models due to domain shift. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are often biased towards low-level features, such as style features, impacting generalization. Despite attempts to mitigate this bias using data augmentation techniques, learning model-agnostic and class-specific feature representations remains complex. Previous methods have employed image-level transformations with styles to supplement training data diversity. However, these approaches face limitations in ensuring style diversity due to restricted style sources, limiting the utilization of the potential style space. To address this, we propose a straightforward yet effective style conversion and generation module integrated into the UNet model. This module transfers diverse yet plausible style features to the original training data at the feature-level space, ensuring that generated styles align closely with the original data. Our method demonstrates superior performance in single-domain generalization tasks across five datasets compared to prior methods.

Feature Separation and Fusion to Optimise the Migration Model of Mural Painting Style in Tombs

Tomb murals are different from cave temple murals and temple murals, as they are underground cultural relics, their painting style is unique, solemn, and austere, and the performance image is characterised by simple colours, low contrast, and fewer survivors. During the digital restoration process, it is important to have sufficient reference samples to ensure the accuracy of the restoration. In addition, the style of mural paintings in the tombs varies greatly from other styles of murals and types of word paintings. Therefore, learning the unique artistic style of tomb murals, providing stylistically consistent training samples for digital restoration, and overcoming the problems of dim lighting and complex surface granularity of tomb murals are all necessary for research. This paper proposes a generative adversarial network algorithm that separates and fuses style features to enhance the generative network’s ability to acquire image information. The algorithm extracts underlying and surface style feature details of the image to be tested and conducts fusion generation experiments. The generative network’s parsing layer modifies the input noise tensor and optimises the corresponding weights to prevent misalignment between drawing lines and fresco cracks. Finally, to optimise the fresco generation effect, we add the corresponding loss function in the discriminator. The tomb murals dataset was established for experiments and tests, and quantitatively and qualitatively analysed with other style migration models, and SSIM, FID, LPIPS and NIQE were used as evaluation indexes. The results were 0.97, 269.579, 0.425 and 3.250, respectively, and the effect of style migration of this paper’s method was significantly higher than that of the control group model.

National Phraseological Units of Speech Behavior in the Kazakh, Russian and English Languages

Summary The relevance of the study is determined by the importance of studying the phraseological systems of a particular language through the prism of national and cultural code of ethnicity, a value-based approach to the linguistic and communicative paradigm on the example of the Kazakh, Russian and English languages, the creation of national speech universals, identifying the area of their functioning and understanding of phraseological structures by native and non-native speakers of the language. The purpose of the study is an in-depth analysis of national, and cultural characteristics through the verbalisation of thought processes displayed in a diachronic language section. The main method of investigation is theoretical, involving the collection and study of a wide range of scientific literature on the stated topic, the identification of the main national elements through the study of the lexical-structural realisation of the value priorities of the people at the level of speech behaviour. The study addresses the unique transmission of folk wisdom by intralingual and extralingual means, the verbalisation of a nation’s thought activity and its results, different aspects of the study of these issues in world science for a complete language picture of a particular nation, the basic similarities, and differences in the mechanisms of operation of different language systems are analysed in detail. The materials presented in the study can be used in further phraseological studies on the moral values of the nation on the example of linguistic culture, the creation of linguistic studies on the influence of verbal and non-verbal factors on the development of people, to study the structural, semantic, stylistic characteristics of speech behaviour, to turn scientific interests into anthropocentric trends, to record and categorise the connotations of stable units and their speech equivalents in dictionaries, textbooks, scientific studies.

DNIT: Enhancing Day-Night Image-to-Image Translation through Fine-Grained Feature Handling (Student Abstract)

Existing image-to-image translation methods perform less satisfactorily in the "day-night" domain due to insufficient scene feature study. To address this problem, we propose DNIT, which performs fine-grained handling of features by a nighttime image preprocessing (NIP) module and an edge fusion detection (EFD) module. The NIP module enhances brightness while minimizing noise, facilitating extracting content and style features. Meanwhile, the EFD module utilizes two types of edge images as additional constraints to optimize the generator. Experimental results show that we can generate more realistic and higher-quality images compared to other methods, proving the effectiveness of our DNIT.

Generalizable Fourier Augmentation for Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation

The performance of existing unsupervised video object segmentation methods typically suffers from severe performance degradation on test videos when tested in out-of-distribution scenarios. The primary reason is that the test data in real- world may not follow the independent and identically distribution (i.i.d.) assumption, leading to domain shift. In this paper, we propose a generalizable fourier augmentation method during training to improve the generalization ability of the model. To achieve this, we perform Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) over the intermediate spatial domain features in each layer to yield corresponding frequency representations, including amplitude components (encoding scene-aware styles such as texture, color, contrast of the scene) and phase components (encoding rich semantics). We produce a variety of style features via Gaussian sampling to augment the training data, thereby improving the generalization capability of the model. To further improve the cross-domain generalization performance of the model, we design a phase feature update strategy via exponential moving average using phase features from past frames in an online update manner, which could help the model to learn cross-domain-invariant features. Extensive experiments show that our proposed method achieves the state-of-the-art performance on popular benchmarks.

FedST: Federated Style Transfer Learning for Non-IID Image Segmentation

Federated learning collaboratively trains machine learning models among different clients while keeping data privacy and has become the mainstream for breaking data silos. However, the non-independently and identically distribution (i.e., Non-IID) characteristic of different image domains among different clients reduces the benefits of federated learning and has become a bottleneck problem restricting the accuracy and generalization of federated models. In this work, we propose a novel federated image segmentation method based on style transfer, FedST, by using a denoising diffusion probabilistic model to achieve feature disentanglement and image synthesis of cross-domain image data between multiple clients. Thus it can share style features among clients while protecting structure features of image data, which effectively alleviates the influence of the Non-IID phenomenon. Experiments prove that our method achieves superior segmentation performance compared to state-of-art methods among four different Non-IID datasets in objective and subjective assessment. The code is available at https://github.com/YoferChen/FedST.

StyleSinger: Style Transfer for Out-of-Domain Singing Voice Synthesis

Style transfer for out-of-domain (OOD) singing voice synthesis (SVS) focuses on generating high-quality singing voices with unseen styles (such as timbre, emotion, pronunciation, and articulation skills) derived from reference singing voice samples. However, the endeavor to model the intricate nuances of singing voice styles is an arduous task, as singing voices possess a remarkable degree of expressiveness. Moreover, existing SVS methods encounter a decline in the quality of synthesized singing voices in OOD scenarios, as they rest upon the assumption that the target vocal attributes are discernible during the training phase. To overcome these challenges, we propose StyleSinger, the first singing voice synthesis model for zero-shot style transfer of out-of-domain reference singing voice samples. StyleSinger incorporates two critical approaches for enhanced effectiveness: 1) the Residual Style Adaptor (RSA) which employs a residual quantization module to capture diverse style characteristics in singing voices, and 2) the Uncertainty Modeling Layer Normalization (UMLN) to perturb the style attributes within the content representation during the training phase and thus improve the model generalization. Our extensive evaluations in zero-shot style transfer undeniably establish that StyleSinger outperforms baseline models in both audio quality and similarity to the reference singing voice samples. Access to singing voice samples can be found at https://stylesinger.github.io/.

ლადო ალექსი-მესხიშვილის წვლილი XX საუკუნის შუა პერიოდის ქართულ ბინათმშენებლობაში

The Georgian apartment building of the middle of the 20th century is characterized by stylistic and artistic features typical for that era. Architectural trends are associated with the main signs of socialist realism and late modernist movements. In the projects of Lado Alexi-Meskhishvili's residential houses reveal both the architectural characteristic of the Stalinist empire style and the contemporary principles of modernism. The research of the architect's projects and their analysis showed how the change of eras is represented in the architecture of residential houses

Actualization of Ancient Images in Works of Contemporary Playwrights

The article explores the reception of ancient imagery in contemporary playwrights’ works. The study focuses on the plays “Besieged” by E. Grishkovtsev, “Two Wives of Paris” by E. Isaeva, and “Micropolis” by E. Vodolazkin. A comprehensive analysis of these works is conducted to examine the modernization of ancient images, identifying intertextual connections and individual stylistic features in the use of precedent phenomena by different playwrights. The novelty of the research lies in tracing the discursive properties of motifs and images rooted in ancient culture and reimagined in contemporary plays. The analysis demonstrates how contemporary playwrights' engagement with familiar material enriches the semantic field of new works, offering fresh perspectives on eternal themes and exploring new and unexpected connections between the past and present, myth and reality. This study is relevant for the study and development of cultural dialogue across different epochs and communities. The authors conclude that in contemporary dramaturgy, ancient images possess significant discursive potential and serve as a means of artistic exploration of modern reality.

Short Sentences of Responsive Replies from Dialogues of ‘Hamlet’ in Russian Translations

The article explores dialogic units with responsive utterances containing brief narrative structures consisting of representing or substituting words, such as we do, it will, they are not, etc. The linguistic material is sourced from the text of Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’ and its translations into Russian by N. Polev, A. Kroneberg in the 19th century, B. Pasternak, M. Lozinsky, A. Radlova in the 20th century, V. Ananyin, I. Peshkov in the 21st century. The lexical-grammatical and stylistic characteristics of concise English structures are discussed, along with the translators’ approaches to their interpretation. It is revealed that in the translation texts, representative sentences are reflected by repeating individual words of the initiating utterance (sledi [follow] — slezhu [I follow]), idiomatic expressions (chego net, togo net [what is not, that is not]), sentence-words (da, net, vernо [yes, no, correct]), combinations like (sovershenno vernо [absolutely correct], tochno tak [just like that]), imperative markers (ne somnevaytes’ [do not doubt]). The authors of Russian translations maintain the function of utterances with representative sentences in Shakespeare’s text: in terms of character interaction — as an informative or phatic speech element ensuring coherence in dialogues, in terms of audience impact — as a tool helping viewers better navigate the stage events.