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Hömberg, Walter. "Talent Scouts and Proofreaders." German Research 33, no. 3 (December 2011): 10–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/germ.201290000.

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Rowe, David C. "Talent scouts, not practice scouts: Talents are real." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21, no. 3 (June 1998): 421–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x98391232.

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Howe et al. have mistaken gene x environment correlations for environmental main effects. Thus, they believe that training would develop the same level of performance in anyone, when it would not. The heritability of talents indicates their dependence on variation in physiological (including neurological) capacities. Talents may be difficult to predict from early cues because tests are poorly designed, or because the skill requirements change at more advanced levels of performance. One twin study of training effects demonstrated greater heritability of physical skill after than before training. In summary, talents are real.
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Waddington, Gordon S. "What are talent scouts identifying?" Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport 19, no. 5 (May 2016): 359. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2016.04.001.

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Guenter, Ryan W., John G. H. Dunn, and Nicholas L. Holt. "Talent Identification in Youth Ice Hockey: Exploring “Intangible” Player Characteristics." Sport Psychologist 33, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 323–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/tsp.2018-0155.

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The purpose of this study was to examine “intangible” characteristics that scouts consider when evaluating draft-eligible prospects for the Western Hockey League. Sixteen scouts participated in semistructured interviews that were subjected to an inductive thematic analysis and then organized around predetermined categories ofwhyintangibles were important,whatintangibles were valued, andhowscouts evaluated these intangibles. Intangibles helped scouts establish players’ fit with the organizational culture of teams and influenced scouts’ draft-list ranking of players. The key intangibles scouts sought were labeled compete, passion, character, and leadership/team player. Scouts noted red flags (i.e., selfish on-ice behaviors, bad body language, and poor parental behavior) that led them to question players’ suitability for their respective organizations. Finally, scouts used an investigative process to identify and evaluate these intangibles through direct observation; interviews with players, coaches, and trainers; and assessments of players’ social media activities. Implications for sport psychology consultants are discussed.
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Jokuschies, Nina, Vanessa Gut, and Achim Conzelmann. "Systematizing coaches’ ‘eye for talent': Player assessments based on expert coaches’ subjective talent criteria in top-level youth soccer." International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching 12, no. 5 (October 2017): 565–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747954117727646.

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Although talent selection in professional soccer mainly relies on the subjective judgment of scouts and coaches, little is known to date about top-level soccer coaches’ conceptions of talent. Drawing on a constructivist approach, this mixed method study intends to give an in-depth insight into coaches’ subjective talent criteria and to investigate the validity and reliability of their player assessments based on these criteria. Five national youth soccer coaches were examined using semistructured inductive interviews and the repertory grid technique. The results reveal experienced soccer coaches’ subjective talent criteria and indicate the multidimensional nature of their concepts of talent. There is a high correlation (−.57 ≤ rs ≤ −.81) between the coaches’ assessment of their players based on their own talent criteria and their previous evaluation of these players’ overall potential, indicating criterion validity. Repeated evaluations of the players according to a coach’s talent criteria display an adequate test–retest reliability over a period of 10 weeks.
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Lowenfish, Lee. "Eye for Talent: Interviews with Veteran Baseball Scouts (review)." NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 19, no. 2 (2011): 162–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nin.2011.0023.

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Radicchi, Elena, and Michele Mozzachiodi. "Social Talent Scouting: A New Opportunity for the Identification of Football Players?" Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research 70, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 28–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pcssr-2016-0012.

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AbstractThis paper investigates the diffusion of digital technologies within the football talent scouting process. A qualitative exploration based on open discussions and unstructured interviews with professionals involved in the football system (coaches, scouts, players’ agents, etc.) provides insights about how new technologies are used for recruiting athletes. The findings, which are mainly in the context of Italian football, indicate a cultural and generational gap in the use of new digital tools that creates a mismatch between young promising athletes (demand side) and “senior” team professionals (supply side).
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Baker, Joseph, and Nick Wattie. "Talent: A contestable, but not contested, concept?" Current Issues in Sport Science (CISS) 4 (June 1, 2021): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.36950/ciss_2019.108.

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Our target article on ‘Innate talent’ had two objectives, first to acknowledge the 20th anniversary of the seminal contribution by Howe, Davidson and Sloboda (1998) and second, to update this information as it relates to talent in the domain of sport. Many thanks to all the authors that took the time to provide commentaries on our review. Broadly, our target paper focused on 1) whether the concept of innate talent was reasonable and scientifically sound and 2) whether the concept of innate talent had any utility to those working at the coalface of sport science (e.g., coaches, scouts, etc.). All of the commentaries were complimentary to our review, which suggested continued interest in this area (although this was noted as surprising by Hambrick and Burgoyne). We have tried to respond to all of the interesting points raised by the commentaries, but this was not always possible. That said, we grouped our responses under general themes below. Our impression, based on the commentaries, is that innate talent is not a contested concept; in that there appears to be agreement (for the most part) that, ‘this thing exists’. Rather, the concept of innate talent is contestable (Gallie, 1956); that is, there is debate about exactly what it is, the degree of its influence, and how useful the concept of innate talent is.
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Gonçalves, Carlos E. B., Luís M. L. Rama, and António B. Figueiredo. "Talent Identification and Specialization in Sport: An Overview of Some Unanswered Questions." International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance 7, no. 4 (December 2012): 390–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.7.4.390.

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The theory of deliberate practice postulates that experts are always made, not born. This theory translated to the youth-sport domain means that if athletes want to be high-level performers, they need to deliberately engage in practice during the specialization years, spending time wisely and always focusing on tasks that challenge current performance. Sport organizations in several countries around the world created specialized training centers where selected young talents practice under the supervision of experienced coaches in order to become professional athletes and integrate onto youth national teams. Early specialization and accurate observation by expert coaches or scouts remain the only tools to find a potential excellent athlete among a great number of participants. In the current study, the authors present 2 of the problems raised by talent search and the risks of such a search. Growth and maturation are important concepts to better understand the identification, selection, and development processes of young athletes. However, the literature suggests that sport-promoting strategies are being maintained despite the increased demands in the anthropometric characteristics of professional players and demands of actual professional soccer competitions. On the other hand, identifying biological variables that can predict performance is almost impossible.
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Tansley, Carole, Ella Hafermalz, and Kristine Dery. "Talent development gamification in talent selection assessment centres." European Journal of Training and Development 40, no. 7 (August 1, 2016): 490–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejtd-03-2016-0017.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the use of sophisticated talent selection processes such as gamification and training and development interventions designed to ensure that candidates can successfully navigate the talent assessment process. Gamification is the application of game elements to non-game activities through the adoption of gaming tools, and little is known about how candidates (“talent”) struggle to learn about the structural mechanics of gamification as they engage with the hidden rules of talent selection, such as goals, rules, “levelling up”, feedback and engagement in competitive – collaborative activities. The term “talent development gamification” is coined and used as an analytical tool to consider how young talent are supported by development interventions in their inter-subjectivity as they learn how to survive and win in talent selection games. Design/methodology/approach Studying hidden dynamics in development processes inherent in gamified talent selection is challenging, so a cult work of fiction, “Ender’s Game”, is examined to address the questions: “How do candidates in talent selection programmes learn to make sense of the structural mechanics of gamification”, “How does this make the hidden rules of talent selection explicit to them?” and “What does this mean for talent development?” Findings Talent development in selection gamification processes is illustrated through nuanced theoretical accounts of how a multiplicity of shifting and competing developmental learning opportunities are played out as a form of “double-consciousness” by potential organizational talent for them to “win the selection game”. Research limitations/implications Using novels as an aid to understanding management and the organization of work is ontologically and epistemologically problematic. But analysing novels which are “good reads” also has educational value and can produce new knowledge from its analysis. In exploring how “Characters are made to live dangerously, to face predicaments that, as readers, we experience as vicarious pleasure. We imagine, for example, how a particular character may react or, more importantly, what we would do in similar circumstances” (Knights and Willmott, 1999, p. 5). This future-oriented fictional narrative is both illustrative and provides an analogy to illuminate current organisational development challenges. Originality/value The term “talent development gamification in selection processes” is coined to allow analysis and provide lessons for talent development practice in a little studied area. Our case study analysis identifies a number of areas for consideration by talent management/talent development specialists involved in developing talent assessment centres incorporating gamification. These include the importance of understanding and taking account of rites of passage through the assessment centre, in particular the role of liminal space, what talent development interventions might be of benefit and the necessity of appreciating and managing talent in developing the skill of double consciousness in game simulations.

Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Talent scouts in fiction":

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Syme, Neil. "Uncanny modalities in post-1970s Scottish fiction : realism, disruption, tradition." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21768.

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This thesis addresses critical conceptions of Scottish literary development in the twentieth-century which inscribe realism as both the authenticating tradition and necessary telos of modern Scottish writing. To this end I identify and explore a Scottish ‘counter-tradition’ of modern uncanny fiction. Drawing critical attention to techniques of modal disruption in the works of a number of post-1970s Scottish writers gives cause to reconsider that realist teleology while positing a range of other continuities and tensions across modern Scottish literary history. The thesis initially defines the critical context for the project, considering how realism has come to be regarded as a medium of national literary representation. I go on to explore techniques of modal disruption and uncanny in texts by five Scottish writers, contesting ways in which habitual recourse to the realist tradition has obscured important aspects of their work. Chapter One investigates Ali Smith’s reimagining of ‘the uncanny guest’. While this trope has been employed by earlier Scottish writers, Smith redesigns it as part of a wider interrogation of the hyperreal twenty-first-century. Chapter Two considers two texts by James Robertson, each of which, I argue, invokes uncanny techniques familiar to readers of James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson in a way intended specifically to suggest concepts of national continuity and literary inheritance. Chapter Three argues that James Kelman’s political stance necessitates modal disruption as a means of relating intimate individual experience. Re-envisaging Kelman as a writer of the uncanny makes his central assimilation into the teleology of Scottish realism untenable, complicating the way his work has been positioned in the Scottish canon. Chapter Four analyses A.L. Kennedy’s So I Am Glad, delineating a similarity in the processes of repetition which result in both uncanny effects and the phenomenon of tradition, leading to Kennedy’s identification of an uncanny dimension in the concept of national tradition itself. Chapter Five considers the work of Alan Warner, in which the uncanny appears as an unsettling sense of significance embedded within the banal everyday, reflecting an existentialism which reaches beyond the national. In this way, I argue that habitual recourse to an inscribed realist tradition tends to obscure the range, complexity and instability of the realist techniques employed by the writers at issue, demonstrating how national continuities can be productively accommodated within wider, pluralistic analytical approaches.
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Keita, Mohamed. "Approche psychocritique de l'œuvre romanesque de Tierno Monénembo." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00691942.

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La présente thèse a pour but de ressortir l'implicite de l'œuvre de Tierno Monénembo. Elle se structure autour de trois axes principaux ; le premier étudie les instances narratives ; le deuxième porte sur les principaux actants du récit ; le troisième axe permet d'élaborer la genèse du mythe personnel de l'écrivain à travers l'exil. L'analyse psychocritique de l'œuvre de Monénembo se veut être aussi une étude portant sur la psychologie des personnages, elle tâche de mettre en exergue le malaise identitaire des personnages et celui de l'exilé en somme, face à des traumatismes sociopolitiques, les personnages éprouvent la nostalgie du royaume de l'enfance. Cette structure récurrente dans l'œuvre est la résultante d'un passé troublant. Celui-ci se traduit dans le discours des narrateurs. Ces derniers s'inspirent en général de l'univers familial ou de celui du pays natal " mal sorti " du joug colonial français
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Alexander, Pauline Ingrid. "A story that would (O)therwise not have been told." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1764.

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My mini-dissertation gives the autobiography of Talent Nyathi, who was born in rural Zimbabwe in 1961. Talent was unwillingly conscripted into the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle. On her return to Zimbabwe, she has worked tirelessly for the education of her compatriots. Talent's story casts light on subject-formation in conditions of difficulty, suffering and victimization. Doubly oppressed by her race and gender, Talent has nevertheless shown a remarkable capacity for self-empowerment and the empowerment of others. Her story needs to be heard because it will inspire other women and other S/subjects and because it is a corrective to both the notions of a heroic Struggle and the `victim' stereotype of Africa. Together with Talent's autobiography, my mini-dissertation offers extensive notes that situate her life story in the context of contemporary postcolonial, literary and gender theory and further draws out the significance of her individual `history-from-below'.
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Books on the topic "Talent scouts in fiction":

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Dean, Zoey. Talent (Talent #1). New York: Razorbill, 2008.

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Dean, Zoey. Talent. New York: Razorbill, 2008.

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Dean, Zoey. Talent. New York: Razorbill, 2008.

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Dean, Zoey. Almost Famous (Talent #2). New York: Razorbill, 2008.

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Banks, Steven. Welcome to fifth grade! New York: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon, 2005.

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Eisenberg, Lisa. Leave it to Lexie. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Viking, 1989.

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Killian, Beth. The 310. New York: Pocket Books, 2006.

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Killian, Beth. The 310. New York: Pocket, 2006.

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Dean, Zoey. Almost Famous. New York: Penguin USA, Inc., 2009.

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Hollis, Shannon. The Naked Truth. Toronto, Ontario: Harlequin, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Talent scouts in fiction":

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Swanson, Julie Dingle, Lara Walker Russell, and Lindsey Anderson. "A Model for Growing Teacher Talent Scouts: Decreasing Underrepresentation of Gifted Students." In Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific, 1–20. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3021-6_55-1.

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Swanson, Julie Dingle, Lara Walker Russell, and Lindsey Anderson. "A Model for Growing Teacher Talent Scouts: Decreasing Underrepresentation of Gifted Students." In Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific, 1193–212. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3041-4_55.

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Swanson, Julie Dingle, Lara Walker Russell, and Lindsey Anderson. "A Model for Growing Teacher Talent Scouts: Decreasing Underrepresentation of Gifted Students." In Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific, 1193–212. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3041-4_55.

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Gottschalk, Jennifer. "Fan Fiction." In Writing Strategies for Talent Development, 140–56. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003089247-ch06.

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McKeever, Gerard Lee. "Short Fictions of Improvement by James Hogg and Walter Scott." In Dialectics of Improvement, 72–111. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441674.003.0003.

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This chapter reads James Hogg and Walter Scott within a new, revisionist history of short fiction that is particularly interested in the genre of the ‘tale’. Focusing on the half-decade between 1827 and 1831, the chapter highlights a selection of Hogg’s mature contributions to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine alongside Scott’s Chronicles of the Canongate (first series). These years were marked by literary experimentation, when a confident improving persuasion in Scottish culture was threatening to unravel. The formal logic of these short fictions, defined by a curiously focused spontaneity, exacerbates a pluralistic handling of the collision between improvement and tradition. Different models of time (progress, renewal, disruption) and belief (suspension, scepticism, credulity) serve to interrogate improvement in a wide range of contexts around commercial modernisation. The chapter unpacks two specific literary innovations in this context. The first looks to acts of transmission in the literary marketplace which by turns sustain, contain and defer the dialectics of improvement. The second sees the emergence of a fully fledged aesthetic vocabulary of culture in Scott’s writing.
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Adams, Jade Broughton. "‘Dancing Modern Suggestive Dances that are Simply Savagery’: Fitzgerald and Ragtime Dance." In F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Fiction, 30–57. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424684.003.0002.

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Irene and Vernon Castle were stewards of the transition from Victorian to modern dancing, and Fitzgerald uses this period as the setting for two series of stories. The rigid rules of Victorian dances gave way to a more improvisation-based style, and this chapter argues that a similar shift can be seen in Fitzgerald’s manipulation of short story formulae. This chapter draws parallels between the production lines of Taylorist management philosophies and the dance manuals that broke dances down into fragmented gestures and machinistic imitative steps, contextualising this as part of a wider cultural shift from the artisinal to the mass produced. In the course of his search to regain the popularity of his explosive debut at the beginning of the 1920s, Fitzgerald parodies certain of his early heroines in his later work. The use of such parodic ‘ragging’ and syncopation draws upon musical techniques that emerged from African American culture, such as jazz. Rather than reading these reimaginings as symptomatic of Fitzgerald’s dwindling talents or financial desperation, this chapter argues that this self-parody serves creative aims as well as constituting Fitzgerald’s subtle criticism of the public’s insatiable demand for the formulaic flapper stories favoured by the ‘slick’ magazines.
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Gottschalk, Jennifer. "Fantasy, Crime, and Science Fiction." In Writing Strategies for Talent Development, 35–76. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003089247-ch03.

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Mann, David. "Approaches to Help Coaches and Talent Scouts Overcome Relative Age Effects." In Relative Age Effects in Sport, 117–35. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003030737-10.

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Thiess, Derek J. "SF Sport and the Individual Talent." In Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction, 116–39. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786942227.003.0007.

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While related to the third chapter’s healthy acknowledgement of bodily limitations, this chapter outlines in more detail the predominance of systemic thinking in the context of sport and the allied forgetting of the experience of the individual athlete. Against this trend, the sf stories, films, and even video games in this chapter highlight the experiences of individual athletes, even in team sports, and the positive role that sport may play in their lives. In this way, it highlights the biological humanity of the athlete over and against the abstraction to which much social criticism condemns them. How, it asks, is sport important to the identity of the individuals who engage them?
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"SF Sport and the Individual Talent." In Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction, 116–39. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvhn0bn8.10.

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Conference papers on the topic "Talent scouts in fiction":

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Baranov, A. N., and D. O. Dobrovol’skij. "STYLE DYNAMICS OF THE RUSSIAN WRITTEN SPEECH OF THE 19TH CENTURY: A CORPUS STUDY." In International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies "Dialogue". Russian State University for the Humanities, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2075-7182-2020-19-48-61.

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The starting point of the present paper is the hypothesis that the distribution of discursive words characterizes the trends in the development of the writing style of the 19th century. The paper presents and discusses the results of an experiment based on the data of the Russian National Corpus on the frequency of using discursive words with the semantics of epistemic modality, such as konechno, razumeetsya (both roughly meaning ‘of course’), po-vidimomu ‘apparently’, kak kazhetsya, kazalos’ by (both ≈ ‘it would seem’), naverno ≈ ‘as it were’, veroyatno ‘probably’, pozhaluy ≈ ‘maybe’, deystvitel’no ‘really’, etc. We show that the frequency of this group of expressions increases in the second half of the 19th century. A similar trend is also observed for some syntactic constructions with the same semantics: (ya) dumayu, chto… ‘(I) think that...’; (ya) schitayu, chto… ‘(I) believe that...’; (mne) kazhetsya, chto… ‘it seems to me that’. The revealed regularity is considered as a discursive practice in changing the style of fiction, which consisted in expanding the modus part of the utterance as compared to the earlier period. The discursive practice of expanding the modus was inherent only to a group of innovative writers (first of all, F. M. Dostoevsky, M. E. SaltykovShchedrin, L. N. Tolstoy, I. A. Goncharov, A. F. Pisemsky, P. I. MelnikovPechersky, N. S. Leskov, and I. S. Turgenev), who, however, due to their talent, social significance, and the number of published texts, had a significant impact on the language of fiction. The task of studying the dynamics of artistic style is to identify and describe a set of discursive practices that establish written discourse as such.

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