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Kahrizsangi, Abbas Ali Salehi; Haddadi, Mohammad Hossein – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
Acquisition and improvement of literary translation competence is an important undertaking in teaching literary translation with the aim to enable the student to translate into the target language the content, expressive power, language style, and an equal function of the literary text. This essay pursues the aim of helping to create and improve…
Descriptors: Literature, Translation, Creoles, Teaching Methods
Cuauhtemoc Garcia-Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Across the centuries, the question of the origin of language has captivated the human imagination. Many theories have been proposed to address fundamental questions such as: Where do languages come from? How do they evolve? What are the societal drivers of this change? Historically, one of the biggest challenges in addressing these questions has…
Descriptors: Written Language, Computational Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Diachronic Linguistics

Taylor, Talbot J. – Language Sciences, 1997
Dedicates this issue of "Language Sciences" to Roy Harris, former Professor of Linguistics at Oxford University, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The article points out that because of Harris's writing style and arguments, he is viewed as a skeptic, who approaches any topic from the perspective of philosophy rather than that of…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Styles, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics

Azuike, Macpherson Nkem. – Language Sciences, 1992
Presents diverse theories and concepts of style. A step-by-step analytical procedure for the stylistic examination of texts is provided, which ranges from a brief summary to which other levels of analysis are related, through diction, register tone, punctuation, clausal and sentence types, paragraphing, schemes of construction, and figures of…
Descriptors: Individualism, Language Styles, Linguistic Theory, Literary Styles

Flowerdew, L. – System, 1998
Reviews corpus-based research that draws on theoretical insights from systemics, genre, and discourse analysis for exploration of small-scale specialized corpora of academic writing. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Language Styles

Enkvist, Nils Erik – Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 1973
It is explained how two streams of modern linguistics--stylistics and text linguistics--can be related to the study of literary texts. It is concluded that a study of the ways in which the sentences of a text are interlinked can reveal certain stylistically relevant characteristics of that text. (Available from: See FL 508 214). (RM)
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Styles, Linguistic Theory, Literary Criticism

Myers, Greg – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Study of the pragmatics of politeness conventionally draws on conversational data, but can be extended to some genres of written text. A framework is described that analyzes politeness strategies in terms of impositions (claims and denials of claims) and reveals some stylistic features in scientific papers and in popularizations. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Styles

Akinnaso, F. Niyi – Language and Speech, 1982
Provides a synthesis of findings about lexical and syntactico-semantic differences between spoken and written language. Outlines and critically examines the major theoretical and methodological approaches used in comparative studies of spoken and written language and reexamines the question of how speech and writing relate to prototypical forms of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Styles, Language Universals

Mitchell, T. F. – Journal of Linguistics, 1978
Challenges the descriptive linguist to tackle the problem of Educated Spoken Arabic and its regional varieties, in particular in regard to aspect and the participle. (AM)
Descriptors: Arabic, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar

Akinnaso, F. Niyi – Language and Speech, 1985
Examines the nature of the convergent relationship between formal spoken and written discourse by focusing on three issues: (1) spoken vs. written modes; (2) formal vs. informal discourse; and (3) the relationship between oral ritual communication and written language and between ritual/written communication and everyday colloquial language. (SED)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Indigenous Populations, Language Research
Tickoo, Asha – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
Two samples of college student writing, paragraphs from freshman compositions, are analyzed for presence or absence of two characteristics of literate prose, decontextualization and autonomy. Writing is decontextualized and autonomous when whatever is needed for its comprehension is included in the words of the text, and comprehension is not…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
Kaplan, Robert B., Ed. – 1984
This volume of the annual review includes introductory remarks by G. Richard Tucker and these papers: "Current Issues in Bilingualism: An Update of Directions in Research" (Braj B. Kachru); "Psycholinguistics: Application. The Writing System as a Native Language for the Deaf" (Danny D. Steinberg); "Sociolinguistics: Theory" (Monica Heller);…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Computer Assisted Instruction, Deafness
CASSIDY, FREDERIC G. – 1963
THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD "LANGUAGE" CAN BE LIMITED TO MEAN "A VOCAL AND AUDITORY MEANS OF COMMUNICATION, WHICH WORKS BY THE SYMBOLIC PROCESS, WHICH HAS A COMPLEX STRUCTURE, AND WHICH IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING SO LONG AS IT REMAINS IN USE." THERE ARE SIX IMPLICATIONS OF THIS DEFINITION--(1) ALTHOUGH LANGUAGE IS PRIMARILY AUDITORY AND VOCAL, IT CAN…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialects, English Instruction, Expressive Language
Guiraud, Pierre; Kuentz, Pierre – 1970
This volume, first in a series of French publications of specialized, introductory books to the study of linguistics, develops a structured, panoramic view of characteristic thought concerning the study of stylistics. Five major areas, each presenting excerpts of significant publications on a particular aspect of the problem, are developed under:…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Cultural Influences, Language Patterns, Language Research
Enkvist, Nils Erik – 1974
This paper argues that context is an important factor to be considered in linguistic analysis. Context is defined as the aggregate of linguistic, situational, social and cultural variables that surround linguistic units such as texts, discourses, utterances, words, morphemes, phonemes, sounds, and distinctive features. A "textual…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, Language Instruction
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