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Boukhaled, Mohamed Amine. "On Computational Stylistics : mining Literary Texts for the Extraction of Characterizing Stylistic Patterns." Thesis, Paris 6, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA066517/document.
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Notre thèse se situe dans le domaine interdisciplinaire de la stylistique computationnelle, à savoir l'application des méthodes statistiques et computationnelles à l'étude du style littéraire. Historiquement, la plupart des travaux effectués en stylistique computationnelle se sont concentrés sur les aspects lexicaux. Dans notre thèse, l’accent est mis sur l'aspect syntaxique du style qui est beaucoup plus difficile à analyser étant donné sa nature abstraite. Comme contribution principale, dans cette thèse, nous travaillons sur une approche à l'étude stylistique computationnelle de textes classiques de littérature française d'un point de vue herméneutique, où découvrir des traits linguistiques intéressants se fait sans aucune connaissance préalable. Plus concrètement, nous nous concentrons sur le développement et l'extraction des motifs morphosyntaxiques. Suivant la ligne de pensée herméneutique, nous proposons un processus de découverte de connaissances pour la caractérisation stylistique accentué sur la dimension syntaxique du style et permettant d'extraire des motifs pertinents à partir d'un texte donné. Ce processus proposé consiste en deux étapes principales, une étape d'extraction de motifs séquentiels suivi de l'application de certaines mesures d'intérêt. En particulier, l'extraction de tous les motifs syntaxiques possibles d'une longueur donnée est proposée comme un moyen particulièrement utile pour extraire des caractéristiques intéressantes dans un scénario exploratoire. Nous proposons, évaluons et présentons des résultats sur les trois mesures d'intérêt proposées, basée chacune sur un raisonnement théorique linguistique et statistique différentThe present thesis locates itself in the interdisciplinary field of computational stylistics, namely the application of statistical and computational methods to the study of literary style. Historically, most of the work done in computational stylistics has been focused on lexical aspects especially in the early decades of the discipline. However, in this thesis, our focus is put on the syntactic aspect of style which is quite much harder to capture and to analyze given its abstract nature. As main contribution, we work on an approach to the computational stylistic study of classic French literary texts based on a hermeneutic point of view, in which discovering interesting linguistic patterns is done without any prior knowledge. More concretely, we focus on the development and the extraction of complex yet computationally feasible stylistic features that are linguistically motivated, namely morpho-syntactic patterns. Following the hermeneutic line of thought, we propose a knowledge discovery process for the stylistic characterization with an emphasis on the syntactic dimension of style by extracting relevant patterns from a given text. This knowledge discovery process consists of two main steps, a sequential pattern mining step followed by the application of some interestingness measures. In particular, the extraction of all possible syntactic patterns of a given length is proposed as a particularly useful way to extract interesting features in an exploratory scenario. We propose, carry out an experimental evaluation and report results on three proposed interestingness measures, each of which is based on a different theoretical linguistic and statistical backgrounds
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Boukhaled, Mohamed Amine. "On Computational Stylistics : mining Literary Texts for the Extraction of Characterizing Stylistic Patterns." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 6, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA066517.
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Notre thèse se situe dans le domaine interdisciplinaire de la stylistique computationnelle, à savoir l'application des méthodes statistiques et computationnelles à l'étude du style littéraire. Historiquement, la plupart des travaux effectués en stylistique computationnelle se sont concentrés sur les aspects lexicaux. Dans notre thèse, l’accent est mis sur l'aspect syntaxique du style qui est beaucoup plus difficile à analyser étant donné sa nature abstraite. Comme contribution principale, dans cette thèse, nous travaillons sur une approche à l'étude stylistique computationnelle de textes classiques de littérature française d'un point de vue herméneutique, où découvrir des traits linguistiques intéressants se fait sans aucune connaissance préalable. Plus concrètement, nous nous concentrons sur le développement et l'extraction des motifs morphosyntaxiques. Suivant la ligne de pensée herméneutique, nous proposons un processus de découverte de connaissances pour la caractérisation stylistique accentué sur la dimension syntaxique du style et permettant d'extraire des motifs pertinents à partir d'un texte donné. Ce processus proposé consiste en deux étapes principales, une étape d'extraction de motifs séquentiels suivi de l'application de certaines mesures d'intérêt. En particulier, l'extraction de tous les motifs syntaxiques possibles d'une longueur donnée est proposée comme un moyen particulièrement utile pour extraire des caractéristiques intéressantes dans un scénario exploratoire. Nous proposons, évaluons et présentons des résultats sur les trois mesures d'intérêt proposées, basée chacune sur un raisonnement théorique linguistique et statistique différentThe present thesis locates itself in the interdisciplinary field of computational stylistics, namely the application of statistical and computational methods to the study of literary style. Historically, most of the work done in computational stylistics has been focused on lexical aspects especially in the early decades of the discipline. However, in this thesis, our focus is put on the syntactic aspect of style which is quite much harder to capture and to analyze given its abstract nature. As main contribution, we work on an approach to the computational stylistic study of classic French literary texts based on a hermeneutic point of view, in which discovering interesting linguistic patterns is done without any prior knowledge. More concretely, we focus on the development and the extraction of complex yet computationally feasible stylistic features that are linguistically motivated, namely morpho-syntactic patterns. Following the hermeneutic line of thought, we propose a knowledge discovery process for the stylistic characterization with an emphasis on the syntactic dimension of style by extracting relevant patterns from a given text. This knowledge discovery process consists of two main steps, a sequential pattern mining step followed by the application of some interestingness measures. In particular, the extraction of all possible syntactic patterns of a given length is proposed as a particularly useful way to extract interesting features in an exploratory scenario. We propose, carry out an experimental evaluation and report results on three proposed interestingness measures, each of which is based on a different theoretical linguistic and statistical backgrounds
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Баранова, Світлана Володимирівна, Светлана Владимировна Баранова, Svitlana Volodymyrivna Baranova, and V. Pedko. "Stylistic potential of negation." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2015. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/39942.
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In linguistics negation is a major cognitive and communicative area of scientific research. Its mechanism is inherent in language interaction, in many cases resulting in modifying the nature of speech acts. Negation is embodied in the literary discourse to create an intentional effect.
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Karlgren, Jussi. "Stylistic Experiments for Information Retrieval." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, SICS, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-187749.
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Information retrieval systems are built to handle texts as topical items:texts are tabulated by occurrence frequencies of content words in them,under the assumption that text topic is reasonably well modeled by contentword occurrence. But texts have several interesting characteristics beyondtopic. The experiments described in this text investigate {\em stylisticvariation}. Roughly put, style is the difference between two ways of sayingthe same thing --- and systematic stylistic variation can be used tocharacterize the {\em genre} of documents. These experiments investigate ifstylistic information is distinguishable using simple language engineeringmethods, and if in that case this type of information can be used toimprove information retrieval systems. A first set of experiments shows that simple measures of stylisticvariation can be used to distinguish genres from each other quiteadequately; how well depends on what the genres in question are. A second set of experiments evaluates the utility of stylistic measures forthe purposes of information retrieval, to identify common characteristicsof relevant and non-relevant documents. The conclusion is that the requestsfor information as typically expressed to retrieval systems are too terseand inspecific for non-topical information to improve retrieval results.Systems for information access need to be designed from the beginning tohandle richer information about the texts and documents at hand:information about stylistic variation cannot easily be added to an existingsystem. A third set of experiments explores how an interactive system can bedesigned to incorporate stylistic information in the interface between userand system. These experiments resulted in the design an interface forcategorizing retrieval results by genre, and displaying the retrievalresults using this categorization. This interface is integrated into aprototype for retrieving information from the World Wide Web.QC 20160530
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Morris, Richard E. "Stylistic variation in Spanish phonology." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1232556920.
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Root, Christopher Wayne. "Stylistic control of ocean water simulations." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2373.
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Sussman, Matthew Benjamin. "Stylistic Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Fiction." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11097.
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To many readers, the Victorian novel is synonymous with moral insight and Victorian criticism with moral philistinism. While the novel remains celebrated for its complex treatment of decision-making and sympathy, the evaluative judgments of Victorian critics have been dismissed as thematically reductive and imprecise. However, this study argues that the virtue terms that pervade Victorian discourse--words like "natural," "manly," "lucid," and "sincere"--invest sentence-level stylistic properties with ethical value because they embody aesthetic character. Rather than focus on the novel's action, characters, or themes, these "stylistic virtues" ascribe moral significance to "literariness" itself.
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Tulloch, Ian Keith. "Translating Zola's L’Assommoir : a stylistic approach." Thesis, Durham University, 2004. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2970/.
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In the following thesis, we will be applying a number of linguistic, stylistic and critical techniques with a view to elucidating the phenomenon of literary translation. Our corpus will be drawn almost exclusively from Emile Zola's late nineteenth-century French classic, L'Assommoir, and seven English-language translations thereof: the focus of the thesis throughout being upon the analysis of concrete examples. Our aim is thus to arrive at a substantial body of analytical knowledge through the exploration of translation in practice rather than through a series of secondary commentaries upon other works of translation theory. Reference will, of course, be made to such works when appropriate. One of the principal premises of the thesis is that linguistic techniques can indeed be applied to a corpus of literary text without sacrificing traditional critical judgement or the possibility of rational evaluation. Accordingly, we will be concerned to formulate reasoned and explicit parameters of assessment throughout the course of our analysis. In particular, we will be seeking to illuminate the various facets of what we call 'literary texture' and how these might be rendered in translation. In certain cases, one rendering may be preferred to another, although no attempt will be made to rank the respective translations by order of merit in overall terms. Occasionally, we will also be hazarding our own versions when those drawn from the corpus prove to be unsatisfactory. Similarly, a 'proposed translation' is offered at the conclusion of every major passage studied. These translations are, of course, to be considered as open and heuristic explorations rather than prescriptive or definitive corrections. Our thesis will be divided into seven main chapters, each one of which is designed to illustrate the phenomenon of literary translation from a slightly different angle. In the first one of these, we map out the basic methodological template of the thesis. In the second, we examine various aspects of the decision making process involved in 'choosing the right word'. This lengthy second chapter is then followed by an analysis of the postulate that translations tend to be more periphrastic and explicit than originals. We then move onto the thorny terrain of prose rhythm, examining how the particular beat and pressure of the original text might be made to resonate within the echo chamber of another language. In the fifth and sixth chapters, we consider the difficulties involved in transcribing the specificity of colloquial language and slang into both written and translated form. Our study concludes with an exploration of Zola's écriture artiste, paying particular attention to the way in which the translators render the various figurative torques and twists characterising this highly aesthetic style of description. It is to be hoped that our thesis will be of interest both to students of translation in general and to Zola scholars in particular. I hereby declare that all work contained in this thesis not otherwise referenced is to be considered my own.
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Wilson-deRoze, Karen Tamara. "Translating Wagner : a multimodal stylistic challenge." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/40878.
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The translator tasked with providing a metrical (singing) translation of an opera libretto must consider that the opera, as a Gestalt, is ‘other’ than the sum of its individual verbal, musical and mimic-scenic parts and requires the translator to consider how the ‘web of relationships’ (Snell-Hornby, 1995: 450) between them is affected when one part is altered through translation. Translation, in this case, must go beyond copying the original prosody and rhyme schemes, so that the new words fit the notes, and consider the relationship between musical and poetic meaning as well as the resulting dramatic action on stage. As a composer, Richard Wagner was concerned with every thread in the semiotic web of his operas. He wrote the words and the music, provided copious stage directions, was involved with the production of his works, and went as far as building his own theatre at Bayreuth. His lengthy, and at times convoluted, theorising about the synthesis of poetry, music and the scenic-mimetic in his operas, serves as something of a functional blueprint of multimodality. In his 1851 monograph, Oper und Drama (1914a, 1914b), Wagner explains how musico-poetic synthesis is created through Versmelodie (verse-melody), from which melody grows organically, facilitated by the “direct sensory appeal” of alliteration, concision and free rhythm (Stein, 1960: 69). This thesis examines the “nexus of foregrounding” (Peer, 1986: 16) found in Wagner’s Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung and considers how three translations used in performance (Jameson c.1899, Porter 1977, Sams 2006) and my own respond to Wagner’s synthesis of verse and music. It will consider the constraints and influences which shape the translator’s recreation of Wagner’s musico-poetic style. My translation of these two operas from the Ring cycle has been produced for the aim of performance but unlike those of Jameson, Porter and Sams, they prioritize alliterative rhyme as an essential part of the musico-poetic intersemiosis.
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Swindells, Rachel Justine. "Stylistic fusion in a postmodern context." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/7849/.
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The purpose of this study is to examine the links between postmodernism and music ‘fusing’ what are commonly described as popular and classical styles. Much postmodern theory has discussed the relationship between ‘high’ and ‘low' and recognised eclecticism within art, but how does fusion connect with this? An investigation of terminology and definitions together with a discussion of historical precedents for contemporary cross-influences provides a base from which to explore fusion and the postmodern. A framework oulining postmodernism’s background and its relevance to music is used in conjunction with an analysis of works by Talk Talk, Mike Oldfield and Graham Fitkin. Developing the concept of what might constitute the postmodern in music, theargument moves beyond the consideration of inherent traits which may or may not suggest postmodernism. A broader concept based on a sense of postmodern spirit is developed, recognising the importance of the roles of context and aesthetic as well as characteristics within the text. A detailed analysis of various works by the chosen artists allows exploration of both the concept of fused music and the application of postmodern theory. It will be suggested that, although these musicians produce music which displays a number of traits which are considered by many to reflect postmodernism, the music in question does not necessarily represent a postmodern aesthetic: the most postmodern of the works considered is also the least fused. It will be argued that the characteristics of music itself cause considerable problems in the application of postmodern theory, and that fusion, by its very definition and because of the connotative qualities that specific musical references often carry, does not correlate to concepts of the postmodern.
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Perelomov, Anton Yuriiovych, Антон Юрьевич Переломов, and Антон Юрійович Переломов. "Linguo-stylistic peculiarities of computer discourse." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2009. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/3746.
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Tarafdar, Arundhati. "Wordspotting from multilingual and stylistic documents." Thesis, Tours, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOUR4022/document.
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Les outils et méthodes d’analyse d’images de documents (DIA) donnent aujourd’hui la possibilité de faire des recherches par mots-clés dans des bases d’images de documents alors même qu’aucune transcription n’est disponible. Dans ce contexte, beaucoup de travaux ont déjà été réalisés sur les OCR ainsi que sur des systèmes de repérage de mots (spotting) dédiés à des documents textuels avec une mise en page simple. En revanche, très peu d’approches ont été étudiées pour faire de la recherche dans des documents contenant du texte multi-orienté et multi-échelle, comme dans les documents graphiques. Par exemple, les images de cartes géographiques peuvent contenir des symboles, des graphiques et du texte ayant des orientations et des tailles différentes. Dans ces documents, les caractères peuvent aussi être connectés entre eux ou bien à des éléments graphiques. Par conséquent, le repérage de mots dans ces documents se révèle être une tâche difficile. Dans cette thèse nous proposons un ensemble d’outils et méthodes dédiés au repérage de mots écrits en caractères bengali ou anglais (script Roman) dans des images de documents géographiques. L’approche proposée repose sur plusieurs originalitésWord spotting in graphical documents is a very challenging task. To address such scenarios this thesis deals with developing a word spotting system dedicated to geographical documents with Bangla and English (Roman) scripts. In the proposed system, at first, text-graphics layers are separated using filtering, clustering and self-reinforcement through classifier. Additionally, instead of using binary decision we have used probabilistic measurement to represent the text components. Subsequently, in the text layer, character segmentation approach is applied using water-reservoir based method to extract individual character from the document. Then recognition of these isolated characters is done using rotation invariant feature, coupled with SVM classifier. Well recognized characters are then grouped based on their sizes. Initial spotting is started to find a query word among those groups of characters. In case if the system could spot a word partially due to any noise, SIFT is applied to identify missing portion of that partial spotting. Experimental results on Roman and Bangla scripts document images show that the method is feasible to spot a location in text labeled graphical documents. Experiments are done on an annotated dataset which was developed for this work. We have made this annotated dataset available publicly for other researchers
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Westover, Daniel. "R. S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. http://a.co/0Kggfyi.
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Daniel Westover traces Thomas's poetic development over six decades, demonstrating how the complex interior of the poet manifests itself in the continually shifting style of his poems.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1100/thumbnail.jpg
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Tseng, Ian. "The Unification of Stylistic Form and Function." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2011. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/71.
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Great design is often the result of intelligent balancing of tradeoffs and leveraging of synergies between multiple product goals. While the engineering design community has numerous tools for managing the interface between functional goals in products, there are currently no formalized methods to concurrently manage stylistic form and functional requirements. The purpose of the work in this dissertation is to formalize ways to coordinate seemingly disparate but highly related goals of stylistic form and functional constraints in both computational design and for human designers. This work aims to provide a cohesive framework where both computational and cognitive findings are brought together to mutually inform and inspire the design process.
First, this problem was approached computationally with the development of an Artificial Neural Network based machine learning system that allows consumer judgments of stylistic form to be modeled quantitatively. Coupling this quantitative model of stylistic form with a Genetic Algorithm enables computers to concurrently account for multiple objectives in the domains of stylistic form and function within the same quantitative framework. This coupling then opens the door for computers to automatically generate products that not only work well, but also look good doing it.
Second, this problem was approached cognitively to explore ways to help human designers manage different goals of stylistic form and function more efficiently and effectively. An experiment was conducted which suggests that designers may sometimes have trouble fully utilizing knowledge they already have for managing different goals in design problems. This experiment shows evidence that analogical inspiration can help designers to overcome this knowledge block to more intelligently balance tradeoffs and leverage synergies in engineering design.
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Lin, Shen-An. "The Lieder of Beethoven: A Stylistic Analysis." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500227/.
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Beethoven is generally acknowledged to be the most important composer of the 19th century. However, many critics and musicologists dismiss Beethoven's Lieder as being of less musical value and sophistication than his more instrumentally conceived late vocal writings. The true musical sophistication of Beethoven's Lieder can be discovered by a careful study of the harmonic structure and the relationship between the vocal and the piano part in Beethoven's Lieder. In discussing Beethoven's Lieder style based on analysis, a number of aspects shall be examined: (1) the harmonic idiom and key relationships; (2) the role of the piano; and (3) other stylistic features.
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Pankhurst, Anne Fisher. "Metonymy : semantic, pragmatic, cognitive and stylistic perspectives." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22540.
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The present research is concerned to define metonymy and discuss its functions in discourse. The theoretical background to the research is pluralist, including semantic, pragmatic, cognitive and stylistic approaches. Different theories are shown to account for conventional and creative realisations of metonymy in everyday discourse, as well as its functions in literary texts. Metonymy is traditionally described in rhetoric and poetics as a figure of speech but the scope of the term has been extended. It is used to describe a means of structuring narrative discourse (Jakobson 1956), and a generalised cognitive mechanism (Lakoff 1987). Recent claims that metonymy is itself a universally valid explanatory principle, based on the evidence of psycholinguistic experiments (Gibbs 1994), lead to consideration of how metonymy affects semantic and syntactic features of language. The thesis considers typological descriptions and explanations of metonymy in terms of general semantic relationships such as part for whole and cause for effect. Metonymy, traditionally a property of noun phrases, is shown to be present in different word categories and at different levels of discourse. Contiguity, a general principle on which metonymic relationships are based, is revised to include contiguity between physical entities and in their perception and interpretation. Metonymy as a naming and referring mechanism is shown to be a shortening device with cohesive functions, related to ellipsis. Contextualisation is reviewed and theories of domain presented. Referentiality is reconsidered with respect to the effects of metonymy. The thesis investigates whether principled distinctions may be made between metonymy and metaphor, and discusses the functions of metonymy in symbolic language. Arguments for its metafunctions in narrative structure are presented taking into account the presence of metonymy at word, phrase and sentence levels. A new way of analysing narrative through metonymy is proposed, and illustrated from literary works.
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Rochemont, Michael S. "A theory of stylistic rules in English." New York : Garland Pub, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/12106679.html.
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Brigg, Jonathan D. "Portfolio of compositions : stylistic in(ter)ventions." Thesis, University of York, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5671/.
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This folio of compositions represents four years of practice-led research into the relationship between musical context and musical content. The outcome is a spectrum of pieces through which the usefulness of terms such as ‘jazz’, ‘classical’, ‘Experimental’, ‘composed’, and ‘improvised’ music is surveyed. The purpose of the research is to find ways in which to express my own individuality as a composer through a very personal exploration of relationships between jazz and classical music contexts – to blur distinctions between them, to invent new musical materials (or, to situate existing musical materials differently), and to explore new relationships between composition, improvisation and indeterminacy. This commentary is in two parts: Part One, ‘Categories’ provides a context for my research and includes an evaluation of relevant musical terms and categories, before situating the folio of compositions accordingly; Part Two, ‘Materials, Methods and Techniques’ explores two distinct approaches to the organisation of pitch materials in the music: the first section is titled ‘Interval Cycles, Integration and ‘Extra-contextuality’’, the second ‘Modes, Form, and Narratives of Difference’. A third section, ‘Composed and Improvised Musical Material’, explores some of the ways in which distinctions between specified and unspecified musical content are blurred in the music. Part Two emphasises the combination of methods and techniques necessary to deal with multiple perspectives in the music, and the search for a common ground through which to explore relationships between musical styles and genres authentically and creatively.
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Mastovaara, Teemu. "Mit Inniger Empfindung : In-between stylistic pluralism." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteori, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-2883.
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Noakou, Alexandra. "Narratological and stylistic problems in translating 'Madame Bovary'." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422039.
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Strausz, Laszlo. "Traveling through Space: Stylistic Progression and Camera Movement." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202007-122230/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. Greg M. Smith, committee chair; Charlie Keil, Ted Friedman, Kathy Fuller-Seeley, Angelo Restivo, committee members. Electronic text (310 p. : ill. (some col.)) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 17, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-283).
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Park, Jinha. "Piano music of Elisenda Fabregas| A stylistic analysis." Thesis, University of South Carolina, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3561836.
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The purpose of this study is to present a stylistic analysis of the piano music by American-Spanish composer and pianist Elisenda Fábregas (b.1955). Fábregas' compositional output includes more than forty works for solo, chamber ensemble, vocal, chorus and orchestra; her large-scale piano works consist of Mirage (1997), Portraits I (2000), Homenatge a Mompou (2006), and Hommage à Mozart (2006). Chapter I consists of an introduction, including the purpose of the investigation and a literature review. Chapter II covers brief biographical information, compositional genre and style, and compositional output of piano, vocal and chamber music. Chapter III provides a stylistic analysis of the four concert piano works of Fábregas: Mirage (1997), Portraits I (2000), Homenatge a Mompou (2006) and Hommage à Mozart (2006). Chapter IV consists of a summary, conclusion, and recommendations for further research.
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Siudmak, John E. C. "The stylistic development of the sculpture of Kashmir." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240373.
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Forsyth, Richard. "Stylistic structures : a computational approach to text classification." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1996. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13445/.
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The problem of authorship attribution has received attention both in the academic world (e.g. did Shakespeare or Marlowe write Edward III?) and outside (e.g. is this confession really the words of the accused or was it made up by someone else?). Previous studies by statisticians and literary scholars have sought "verbal habits" that characterize particular authors consistently. By and large, this has meant looking for distinctive rates of usage of specific marker words -- as in the classic study by Mosteller and Wallace of the Federalist Papers. The present study is based on the premiss that authorship attribution is just one type of text classification and that advances in this area can be made by applying and adapting techniques from the field of machine learning. Five different trainable text-classification systems are described, which differ from current stylometric practice in a number of ways, in particular by using a wider variety of marker patterns than customary and by seeking such markers automatically, without being told what to look for. A comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of these systems, when tested on a representative range of text-classification problems, confirms the importance of paying more attention than usual to alternative methods of representing distinctive differences between types of text. The thesis concludes with suggestions on how to make further progress towards the goal of a fully automatic, trainable text-classification system.
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Wilson, P. "Ellipsis in English : Linguistic form and stylistic effect." Thesis, University of Essex, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375732.
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Kotseleni, Sophia. "Collethus, The Rape of Helen, a stylistic commentary." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287784.
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Wilkins, Katrina M. "Characterization in Ælfric's Esther : a cognitive stylistic examination." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52051/.
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This thesis examines characterization in Ælfric’s Old English version of the biblical book of Esther, from the perspective of cognitive stylistics. This area of study uses concepts and methods from linguistics in order to better understand both how literature works and how language works. The study investigates explicit characterization cues, discourse presentation, semantic fields, and deixis to illuminate how Ælfric’s careful linguistic choices construct characters that remain true to their biblical exempla, make sense to his Anglo-Saxon audience, and underscore the doctrinal themes of the narrative. Chapter 1 describes the textual history of Esther, from its origins to its reception in the early Middle Ages. This is followed by a discussion of the history of Ælfric’s version of the story and its treatment by scholars in the modern era. Chapter 2 outlines my methodology, based in cognitive stylistics, which draws on concepts from cognitive science and related fields to understand what happens in the reader’s mind during reading. In addition, I occasionally draw on corpus stylistics methods, and this is also described. The results and discussion of this analysis form the bulk of Chapters 3 through 6. Chapter 3 focuses on explicit cues, those things that directly describe a character’s personality traits. Speech, thought, and writing presentation are the focus of Chapter 4, which examines how these modes of discourse are presented and how this presentation contributes to the characterization. In Chapter 5 I examine two semantic fields of particular importance in this text: emotions and food. Finally, Chapter 6 addresses two aspects of deixis: relational deixis and Deictic Shift Theory. Although, in all chapters, the analysis primarily focuses on the five main characters (Ahasuerus, Esther, Vashti, Mordecai, and Haman), other apposite characters are also discussed, including the Jews, the Persians, God, and even Ælfric. This kind of cognitive stylistic analysis of Old English and other historical literature is doubly useful. First, it offers new and valuable insights into this literature. The present study, for example, notes minute linguistic details that offer significant characterization cues and also explains the peculiar sense of many Anglo-Saxonists (and other historians) that they know very well people whom they have never met. Second, such examination demonstrates that the chosen methods are robust enough to cope with literature much older than that normally engaged in modern stylistic studies. This not only verifies the utility of the methods, but also attests to the universal nature of their underlying principles.
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Морозова, Ірина Анатоліївна, Ирина Анатольевна Морозова, and Iryna Anatoliivna Morozova. "The comparative phraseological units and their stylistic classification." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/78073.
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The main aim of the work is to select the comparative phraseological units and to give their classification. According to V.L. Arkhangelsky phraseological microsystem is the traditional unity of the systematic relations between the components of the phraseological units and between the phraseological units themselves on the basis of their structural-semantic peculiarities. So, the phraseological mycrosystem consists of 2 mutually connected subsystems: a system of relations and a system of constructions. It has the systematic character. Phraseological unit is a stable combination of words with partly or fully changed meaning. The body of a phraseological unit is a composite sentence. We came to a conclusion that a phraseological unit is a combination of words with a low combinatoric index, which is conditioned by peculiar systematic features of the components or by special character of relation to the combination of words to reality.
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Goverts, Desirée Elise. "A linguistic and stylistic analysis of the Bórama." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707968.
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Davis, Andrew C. "Structural implications of stylistic plurality in Puccini's "Turandot" /." Ann Arbor (Mich.) : UMI, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40043411s.
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Smith, Beverley Gaye. "John Dunstable and Leonel Power a stylistic comparison /." Thesis, Online version, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.358843.
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Jeffries, Lesley Evelyn. "A corpus-based stylistic study of newspaper English." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1989. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/498/.
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This study is based on a corpus of 2400 clauses taken from British national newspapers in 1986 and stored in a computer database with each clause coded for a number of grammatical (and some semantic) features. These features relate to the verb phrase (e.g. finiteness), the clause (e.g. subordination) and the subject (e.g. form). In the first stage of the investigation the database is described in terms of the features coded therein. The scope of the description is on three levels. First, the data are described in total and are considered to constitute a representative sample of newspaper English. Secondly, the database is split into three pre-determined sub-databases according to their text-type. These are: news articles, editorials and readers' letters. A pattern is discovered of 'letters-as-norm' with the other texttypes on different sides of the average. Thirdly, the database is split on a different dimension according to the eight different newspapers included in the sampling. A pattern of three groups of newspapers; 'quality', 'central' and 'popular', is found for some features. The second section exploits the database primarily as an example of written English, rather than emphasising its newspaper origins. Here some problems of description, which have implications for the debate about the division between syntax and semantics, are explored. The first such 'problem' arises out of a study of the environment of copula 'BE' and concerns the borderline between the grammatical functions of subject and subject complement. Some well-known differences are confirmed and some new ones discovered. A small area of overlap, however, remains. The second problem is the familiar difficulty of deciding when an -en form is an adjective and when it remains a participle. It is argued that the contexts of -en forms are often influential in their interpretation as adjectival or verbal forms. The third problem concerns the sequential verbs (sometimes called 'catenative' verbs) which govern a following nonfinite verb phrase. These verbs, which defy attempts to classify them syntactically, are shown to be amenable to semantic classification. The question of restrictions on sequences of more than two verb phrases (i.e. two sequential verbs + one 'normal' verb) is explored and some tentative conclusions are reached.
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Neri, Marco. "Stylistic Design Engineering (SDE) applicato ad una berlina innovativa." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/21979/.
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Il progetto Ford Eagle è un caso di studio sull’applicazione del metodo di progettazione strutturato, lo Stylistic Design Engineering (SDE), per la realizzazione di una nuova berlina elettrica innovativa. L’SDE è un approccio ingegneristico per la progettazione e lo sviluppo di progetti di design industriale, e trova una particolare applicazione nel mondo Automotive.
Per raggiungere l’obiettivo di innovazione e sguardo verso il futuro, sono stati scelti i prodotti per auto del segmento E, in particolare a seguito della necessità di colmare una lacuna nel mercato del marchio Ford, che necessita di una tipologia di modello che potrebbe avere successo nel mercato. Infatti, la Ford non possiede da anni un'ammiraglia berlina sportiva del segmento E, come la storica Falcon degli anni ‘60. Partendo da questo presupposto e dal fatto che le maggiori case automobilistiche attualmente stanno investendo fortemente sulle vetture del segmento E, è stato interessante pensare a un nuovo modello di punta dell’Ovale Blu, che sarà chiamata Ford Eagle. Nelle pagine seguenti verrà illustrato il percorso che ha portato alla realizzazione del prodotto finale, seguendo il metodo SDE ed altre varie tecnologie di progettazione che saranno ulteriormente spiegate in dettaglio, come il metodo Pininfarina, il Quality Function Deployment (QFD), il Benchmarking (BM) e la Top Flop Analysis (TPA).
I metodi caratterizzano la prima parte del presente elaborato, in cui si delineano le caratteristiche chiave della vettura e il grado di innovazione, si individua il segmento di mercato e si analizzano – e si applicano – le tendenze stilistiche più comuni del giorno d’oggi. Nella seconda parte, invece, si realizza lo styling esterno dettagliato del veicolo, attraverso l’utilizzo di strumenti – e non più metodi – come il CAD 3D, fino alla prototipazione e visualizzazione fisica del prodotto, con Additive Manufacturing (AM), e virtuale, con Augmented Reality (AR).
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Philpot, Donald Kent. "Character focalization in four children's novels : a stylistic inquiry." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30485.
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This study examined the selection and development of character focalization in four children’s novels. Character focalization was defined as the location of fictional world perception in the mind of a character. Novels by Meindert DeJong, Katherine Paterson, and Susan Patron were analyzed using systemic-functional resources (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2004), narrative concepts, and a model of focalization described by Rimmon-Kenan (Narrative Fiction, 2002). The study showed that one character in each novel is selected and developed as the prominent fictional world sensory perceiver, emoter, and thinker. Moonta Riemersma in Far Out the Long Canal (DeJong, 1964), Jess Aarons in Bridge to Terabithia (Paterson, 1977), Gilly Hopkins in The Great Gilly Hopkins (Paterson, 1978), and Lucky Trimble in The Higher Power of Lucky (Patron, 2006) are selected and developed as focalizing characters in and beyond the first few chapters of their novels. Distinctive seeing-, hearing-, emoting-, and thinking-patterns obtain in the first few chapters and are subsequently developed according to the principles of continuation, augmentation, or reconfiguration. These distinctive patterns represent the focalized, the people and things perceived. All four characters selected as focalizers are cognitively-engaged individuals, and their thinking reveals their personal understandings about themselves, others, and their lived experiences. This study offers a rich description of four focalizations and a methodology for exploring character focalization in fiction for children, adolescents, and adults. The author suggests that students in fourth through sixth grade will benefit academically and personally by exploring questions centering on focalization in the novels they read, discuss, and reflect on at school.
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Plein, Nadja Gabriela. "Creating the building blocks of an individual stylistic language." Thesis, Royal College of Music, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.576927.
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Lister, W. "A stylistic analysis of 'Jacob's Well' (chapters 1-50)." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372483.
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Williams, Laura M. "Libby Larsen's Seven Ghosts: A Stylistic and Gestural Analysis." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1335442135.
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Forbay, Bronwen M. "Afrikaans Art Song: A Stylistic Study and Performance Guide." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307322705.
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Bae, DaeJin. "Stylistic Changes in Two Violin Concertos by Henryk Wieniawski." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439295069.
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Stine, John A. Ph D. "A Stylistic Assessment of the Viennese Symphony, 1790-1825." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1504803796200276.
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Lin, Yuhan. "Stylistic Variation and Social Perception in Second Dialect Acquisition." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532059573668516.
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O'Sullivan, Neil. "Alcidamas, Aristophanes and the beginnings of Greek stylistic theory /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35553018r.
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Keene, Nadene Ann McMahan Elizabeth. "Male/female language a stylistic analysis of freshman compositions /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1985. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8608951.
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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1985.Title from title page screen, viewed July 1, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth McMahan (chair), Janice Neuleib, Maurice Scharton, Ronald Halinski. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-75) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Westover, Daniel Kirk. "Stylistic destinations : the prosodies of R.S. Thomas, 1936-2000." Thesis, Bangor University, 2008. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/stylistic-destinations(e0ff6a40-26e3-4500-91e8-7d4b1c5f2ccb).html.
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Welsh poet R.S. Thomas (1913-2000), who published for over six decades, evolved from a sub-Georgian imitator in the 1930s to one of Britain's most stylistically-innovative poets in the latter part of the century. This thesis traces Thomas's developmental journey by means of close reading, analyzing his various prosodies, including metrical, accentual, linear, and visual. R. S. Thomas's prosodies were largely an extension of his emotional interiors, but there is also in his work an integral relationship between style and place; the environment in which he wrote poems was consistently reflected in the rhythm, language, and structure of the poetry itself. In order to shed light on the workings of Thomas's prosodies, this thesis makes use of poetic theory and examines Thomas's responses to key influences: the Bible; writings in theology and popular science; and the literary works of Irish, American, Welsh, and English writers.
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Jacobson, Marin Ruth Tollefson. "Stylistic development in the choral music of Rebecca Clarke." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/988.
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Until the recent publication of twelve choral compositions, Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) was known solely as a professional violist and composer of chamber music and art songs. Clarke composed choral music throughout her active period from 1906 to 1944. In 2004, the first study of Clarke's complete compositional output provided an introduction to the choral music, but only covered selected works. The present study traces the development of Clarke's compositional style through chronological analysis of all twelve choral compositions and an incomplete fragment. Clarke's choral music reveals the selection of high quality, expressive texts; exploration of the timbral, registral, and textural potential of unaccompanied choral music; changes in the treatment of all musical elements; the persistent acquisition of new techniques; and reliance on English choral genres including the madrigal, glee, carol, part song and motet.
Chapter one establishes Clarke's importance through a survey of publication, criticism, and scholarship. The chapter also examines the society in which Clarke lived and the issues women composers encountered. A biography then reveals that despite obstacles, Clarke tenaciously pursued compositional study, eagerly acquired new techniques, and expressed enthusiasm for each compositional project. Her skill was confirmed by success in competitions and festivals. Throughout her active period, Clarke supported herself as a professional violist who specialized in chamber music, and a busy performing schedule limited her compositional work.
Chapter two documents Clarke's formative vocal- and chamber-music experiences and suggests that her thorough knowledge of chamber music influenced her approach to choral composition. The chapter continues with analysis of Clarke's first seven choral works. The first three are well-crafted part songs that demonstrate Clarke's assimilation of basic compositional techniques. The next four show the increasing complexity of Clarke's style that culminates in her mature masterpiece, "He That Dwelleth in the Secret Place of the Most High."
Chapter three presents analysis of three choral arrangements, two works for women's voices, and a choral fragment for mixed voices. The last five complete choral compositions confirm elements of Clarke's mature style and demonstrate her interest in exploring the new challenges of choral arranging and writing for women's voices. While Clarke's choral arrangements of her own songs are idiomatic adaptations for unaccompanied, mixed voices, the last three compositions display the diversity of styles Clarke employed in her late works.
Chapter four summarizes changes in Clarke's choral style from 1906 to 1944, examines reasons for her obscurity, and raises questions that merit further research. The appendix which follows clarifies Clarke's intentions and illustrates common editorial issues and solutions through comparison of choral manuscripts and published editions.
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Ferreira, Eliana Maria Azevedo Roda Pessoa. "O antropófago Raul Bopp: escolhas estilísticas em Cobra Norato e Urucungo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-15102015-124731/.
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O objetivo desta tese é estudar as escolhas temáticas, lexicais e estilísticas presentes na obra poética de Raul Bopp, produzidas contemporaneamente às manifestações da Antropofagia e detectar, a partir da constituição do ethos antropofágico, a expressão do conceito de brasilidade nas obras mais representativas: Cobra Norato e Urucungo. A recolha e a análise das escolhas foram feitas sob a ótica da Estilística e dos Estudos discursivos, fruto de uma visão interacionista e dialógica que trabalha o signo como uma instância de disputa pelo poder. O poeta, ao recuperar culturas silenciadas, dar voz a elas, e propor antropofagicamente a devoração constante, reconhece e valoriza a alteridade numa época em que a desigualdade entre etnias e raças tinha sido naturalizada. A metáfora da pele de seda elástica, presente em Cobra Norato, não é só representativa dessa obra, ela pode ser esticada à vida e à obra poética de Bopp: um antropófago que correu o mundo em busca de colher antropologicamente informações sobre as culturas para depois registrá-las poeticamente em suas obras.The main purpose of this thesis is to study the thematic, lexical and stylistic choices in the poetic work of Raul Bopp, produced contemporaneously to Anthropophagy movement, and detect, from the constitution of the anthropophagic ethos, the expression of the concept of brazilianness in two of the most significant Bopp\'s poetic works: Cobra Norato and Urucungo. The collection and analysis of lexical choices were made from the Stylistics\'s and Discursive Studies perspective, the result of a dialogic and interactionist vision that works the sign as an instance of power struggle. The poet, when recovering silenced cultures, giving them voice, and suggesting anthropophagically the constant devouring, acknowledges and values the otherness in a time when the gap between ethnicity and races has been naturalized.The elastic silk skin metaphor, presented in Cobra Norato, can be stretched to Bopp\'s life and poetry: an anthropophagous who toured the world in search of different cultures, anthropologically collecting data that later became his poetry
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Sychrava, J. "Redescribing the naive : A critique of the 'sentimental' tradition in literary theory and criticism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376021.
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Lynch, Kyle R. "Stylistic Change in the Music of Elie Siegmeister, 1940-1970." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/305.
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The life and career of American composer Elie Siegmeister (1909-1991) spanned most of the Twentieth century. His music provides a unique voice in classical music of the United States. With an acute awareness of social issues, Siegmeister desired for his music to communicate with audiences. His love of American folk music, blues, and jazz contributed to his distinct compositional style, first overtly with lyrical folksong-like melodies in the 1940s before becoming sublimated into a dissonant idiom by the 1960s. This thesis provides a survey of the change in Elie Siegmeister’s compositional style, specifically the years between 1940 and 1970. I provide an overview of Siegmeister’s entire compositional career in Chapter One. Chapter Two finds Siegmeister’s involvement with folk music coalescing into a lyrical and tonal style during the 1940s. With Chapter Three, I reveal pivotal events that urged Siegmeister to concentrate on form and thematic development during the 1950s. In Chapter Four I look at the 1960s as a synthesis of his past compositional styles.
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Gummesson, Katja. "William Blake's The Chimney Sweeper : - A Stylistic and Allegorical Study." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-19773.
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Srinivasan, Sharada. "Archaeometallurgical and stylistic re-analysis of South Indian statuary bronzes." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619148.
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