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Mackay, Ray – Language & Communication, 1996
Exposes the two basic myths underlying Carter's position on the discreteness of linguistic description, which are the myth of objectivity and the common-sense myth of language. It is concluded that stylistic analysis is an attempt to spread one's influence and to persuade readers of the validity of one's own response to literary texts. (14…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Essays, Language Patterns, Language Research
Friederich, Wolf – Russisch, 1972
Reviews findings of K. S. Gorbachevich, Izmenenie norm russkogo literaturnovo yazyka'' (Variations of Norms of the Russian Literary Language), Leningrand, 1971; conclusion to follow. (RS)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Instructional Materials
Austin, Warren B. – 1969
Who wrote "The Groatsworth of Wit?" Was it Greene, as hitherto believed, or Chettle? To distinguish between the two writers' styles, and thereby determine the authorship of a 16th Century literary work of particular interest to Shakespearean scholars, computer-aided techniques were employed. The two authors' differing practices in word…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Data Processing, English Literature, Grammar