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Slang is shifting so rapidly that it can be challenging for individuals from other generations or those unfamiliar with digital culture to understand and keep up with learning communication gaps and barriers. Gen Z slang is essential to their identity and communication despite these difficulties. The study seeks to identify the unique features of G...
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Cultural interaction has been shown to be important in the (re)organization of social relationships in pre-contact North America and an important causal factor in Mississippian origins throughout the U.S. Southeast and Midwest. Indeed, recent research has documented the significance of migration and other forms of far-flung interactions in the spre...
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In this article, Karolina Tomczak is concerned with the latest and as yet unstudied works of renowned Wrocław artist Anna Szpakowska-Kujawska (born in 1931) created during the pandemic. These works include a series of pastels Kwadraty zaokienne (Squares outside the Window, or “pandemic squares”) from 2020 and spatial objects made of polystyrene foa...
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Canntaireachd is an orally-devised method used by pipers to remember pibroch (pìobaireachd) compositions, the classical repertoire of the highland bagpipes, and to transmit the music to others. Canntaireachd began to be fixed in print from the early nineteenth century, but unlike tonic solfa and staff notation, the primary purpose of canntaireachd...
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This paper aims to examine the integration of computational linguistics and stylistics, focusing on two primary objectives. The first objective is to determine if current technology can develop a program capable of detecting and analyzing the overall emotion in texts, potentially replacing the work of emotive stylisticians. The second objective is...
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This is a quantitative-qualitative, descriptive study. It studies eulogic speeches on the death of Queen Elizabeth II from a stylistic perspective. The study tries to answer the following questions: what are the stylistic devices used and how are they realized ? what are the most prominent stylistic device used in the selected eulogic speeches ? In...
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The author aims to present the musical pieces for flutes or involving flutes written by composers from the Republic of Moldova over the last three decades, which were performed during various editions of the International Festival "The Days of New Music." The author offers a brief overview of Moldovan composers from different generations, such as G...
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This article reflects on the experience of directing Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at a youth theater in the U.S.A, focusing on the artistic and educational motivations behind staging such a complex musical amid a trend towards more accessible, family-friendly productions. The adaptation aimed to challenge young artists by delving...
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One of the topics in which the science of music can contribute most to excellence in performance is that of the historically informed performance of music from the past. I will propose as an example the issue of the prosodic appoggiatura, a particular type of melodic appoggiatura that is almost never written down by composers in the score, but whic...
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The topic of our research deals with a theoretical, aesthetic, as well as stylistic, interpretative approach to old keyboard instruments, from the beginnings of the Musical Baroque. To develop this theme, we considered it necessary, in the first chapter, to take a general look at the Musical Baroque era, with all its attributes, forms, and genres,...
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Making a concise image referring to the variety and harmonic-melodic-rhythmic functionality of the traditional musical creation of the Brazilian continent is a complex one, considering the multitude of constituent elements, timbral coloration, rhythmic variations or melodic expression, phrasing. However, the artistic contribution of some instrument...
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Television’s ability to combine visual images, sound, motion and colour makes many companies depend on it for advertising their products or services. Studies on banks’ television commercials have concentrated on representations of social practices, the manipulation of language, the interplay between verbal and visual modes, stylistic elements and c...
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The animal motifs within pearl roundels of the Tang Dynasty hold a significant position in the evolution of ancient Chinese decorative patterns. This article focuses on the Tang Dynasty Brocade with Pearl Roundel Facing Lions Pattern housed in the China National Silk Museum as the primary object of study. The analysis is divided into three parts: f...
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This research examines the libretto choices of the pioneer composers of early 19th century Italian opera Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini. It focuses on how historical, cultural, and social factors influenced their work and helped shape Italian opera. Employing a comparative approach, the study analyzes various operas by these composers to reveal ho...
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Through a performative and interdisciplinary approach, the video essay Monsters invites viewers to consider the unique ability of comics to represent mental states of young adults and children who struggle with eating disorders (EDs). We use close readings of a selection of panels from two Norwegian comics, the graphic short story “Sulten” (Hunger/...
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This study examines the combined impact of emotions, emojis, and verbosity on online viewer-to-viewer engagement, focusing on their interaction in shaping engagement behaviors. Using sentiment analysis with the Syuzhet package in R Studio and logistic regression on over 15,000 YouTube comments from the “YouTube Ads Leaderboard: 2021 Cannes Edition,...
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In his pioneering studies on Hittite literature, H. G. Güterbock first attempted to define what was meant by ‘literature’ regarding the corpus of texts from Boğazköy/Ḫattuša. His conclusion was that this term was not applicable to the genuinely Anatolian documentation because – unlike the foreign compositions found in Ḫattuša – it lacks literary au...
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This article explores Nikos Skalkottas's engagement with stylistic accessibility after his return to Greece from Germany in 1933. It considers the composer's self-proclaimed efforts to establish a more accessible, tonal musical style in the context of Greek sociopolitical upheaval and the political culture of anti-fascist resistance. Centring on th...
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Transitional periods usually are very intriguing issues in archaeology. In traditional research, archaeological "cultures" are seen as distinct entities, manifested primarily by differences in material culture, and are distinguished mainly by using various typologies. However, this approach blurs the transitional and contact periods, which are stil...
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Sarajevo poet Zekerija Sukeri (Zekeriyya Sükkerî) is one of the lesser-known poets born in Sarajevo in the early 17th century. Although bio-graphical accounts of him are scarce, the available sources provide several significant details about his life and work. Šabanović, Nametak and others have written about this poet in their surveys. However, a c...
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The chronology of the Bronze Age in the Carpathian basin is largely based on relative chronologies, i.e. stylistic analysis of ceramic (and other) materials. While the number of radiocarbon dates is generally increasing, certain important sites are still poorly dated. One of the largest necropolises from this period, i.e. Mokrin necropolis, which t...
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As its title implies, this dissertation explores the concept of intertextuality in the framework of translation studies. In simple words, intertextuality shows us that the texts that are fully owned by their authors are infrequent, and the notion of originality is no longer in existence. It is the relationship and exchange that exist between two or...
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World literature plays a key role in understanding the global diversity of human storytelling. However, datasets suitable for large-scale cross-cultural analysis remain limited. Responding to the increasing digitization of literary texts and the need for more diverse and multilingual resources, we introduce Mini Worldlit, a manually curated dataset...
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This study explores the emerging phenomenon of AI-generated literature and its implications for creative writing, focusing on the characteristics of AI-generated texts, the impact of AI-human collaboration on the creative process, and the challenges posed by these technologies for traditional concepts of authorship, originality, and creativity. Thr...
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The increasing prevalence of verbal aphasia, exacerbated by the rise of digital communication and internet slang, has highlighted the need for innovative solutions to assist individuals with this condition. In response to this demand, we have developed Capso. This advanced application leverages cutting-edge AI technology, specifically the LLaMA 2 &...
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The relevance of the study is determined by the need to study the conceptual opposition “familiar – alien” in the English worldview, which is a fundamental category of culture and mentality. The purpose of the study is to identify the peculiarities of the functioning of this opposition in different genres of the English language, as well as to esta...
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The article is devoted to the study of elliptical structures, which serve as one of the means of expressive syntax. Elliptical sentences are relatively incomplete from a structural-syntactic perspective yet semantically complete. This duality reveals their unique nature and distinctiveness. The structural organization of elliptical constructions pr...
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The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of personal and cognitive factors, decision making stylistic differences on investment decision making in various cultural settings, and their connections with cognitive biases and heuristics. A complex combination of psychological tests, financial tasks and self-assessment surveys was conducted...
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Статтю присвячено аналізу сміхового дискурсу періоду російсько-української війни. Розглянуто лексику різних семантичних груп у розгортанні площини комічного. Визначено стилістичне навантаження власних і загальних назв, одиниць різних рівнів мовної системи. Виявлено лінгвальні й екстралінгвальні механізми розвитку сміхової культури впродовж воєнних...
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У статті проаналізовано прості речення з відокремленими означеннями у їхньому складі, з’ясовано структурно-семантичні і стилістичні особливості таких речень у мові сучасної української газетної періодики. Актуальність пропонованої розвідки спричинена тим, що відокремлення як синтаксичне і значеннєво-стилістичне явище не було об’єктом опису на матер...
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Most theories of African music emphasize the diversity of musical styles in Africa. Still, many also hold on to the notion of Africa being a uniform area with a high degree of stylistic coherence. This paper questions that latter notion by comparing different genres of West African percussion ensemble music from Mali and Ghana concerning the tempor...
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The purpose of the study is to identify language tools and techniques in online reviews to attract new audiences to concerts and theatrical performances at different language levels. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time it describes linguistic methods of influencing at different language levels, encouraging v...
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The economic reforms of the 1990s marked a significant transformation in India's film industry, particularly influencing Bollywood's thematic and stylistic dimensions. This era gave rise to what is now termed 'multiplex cinema' or 'new Bollywood,' characterized by its appeal to the urban middle-class through innovative storytelling and aesthetic in...
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This article examines the emergence and development of postmodernism as a literary and cultural movement following World War II. Postmodernism is characterized by its departure from modernist principles, embracing fragmentation, irony, black humor, and metafiction. The study investigates the philosophical underpinnings of postmodernism through prom...
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The only extant complete Ekottarikāgama , viz. Zengyi ahan jing 增壹阿含經 T125, has presented modern scholarship with significant challenges. This study departs from the assumption, demonstrated in prior work, that the extant collection is due to *Dharmanandin and Zhu Fonian (and not Saṅghadeva, as wrongly held by tradition and the Taishō). The study f...
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The success rate of language learning hinges on the effectiveness of teaching approaches employed by teachers in ESL classes, particularly in literature teaching. Thus, this study explored the use of the Integrated Approach in literary teaching to ESL learners. Furthermore, this study ventured into teaching approaches utilized by the teachers that...
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Oscar Strok (1893–1975) was a vivid personality in Latvian and European popular musical culture before and after World War II. One of Strok’s most popular tango songs of all time has been Black Eyes (1929). According to data compiled by the author of this article, a tentative total of forty-four tangos by Strok, in both solo song (28) and instrumen...
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This article is about literature and literary movements. Literature is all the capital thoughts and feelings that have been written and it is composed in such a way that the reader gets pleasure from reading it. Literature can be described as a Fine art in which words are central and whose subject is life. In general prose capital is considered as...
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The Kizil Caves, situated in Baili County within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, rank among the most significant Buddhist sites along the historic Silk Road. The murals adorning these caves are not merely works of Buddhist art; they serve as invaluable resources for understanding the historical and cultural legacies of the Western R...
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Based on the architectural production of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Public Works, founded in 1908, and on its successor institutions in the Austrian and Czechoslovak First Republics, this article deals with the question of the representation-al value and the linguistic and expressive capacity of state architecture in the first half of the 2...
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Gioachino Rossini is one of the most significant figures of Italian opera during the period known as the “bel canto era”. This article aims to present readers with lesser-known biographical details about the great composer from Pesaro, followed by an analysis of the aria “Deh! per me non v’affliggete”, which, throughout its length, is accompanied b...
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The love for playfulness, poetry and theatre marked the entire creation of the composer Felicia Donceanu, who tried, through minimal means of achievement, to extract the essence of artistic expression, which any performer or listener could enjoy. The intrinsic link between the two artistic components – the poetic text and the musical text, generate...
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Beowulf is a cornerstone of English literature, celebrated not only for its heroic narrative but also for its stylistic innovations that have influenced poetic traditions. This article explores the poem’s use of key stylistic devices, including alliteration, kennings, variation, and parallelism, which enhance its oral recitation, thematic depth, an...
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For some, the tendency to think that the saxophone is an American instrument is very high, due to the fact that it is a true symbol of jazz. For others it is of Belgian origin, as its inventor was born in Dinant – Belgium. However, the saxophone originated and evolved in Paris. With a strong emotional impact, characterized by a tension of substance...
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Written in 1977, the work by composer Arvo Pärt, Cantate Domino canticum novum (for organ and mixed choir), is based on the text of Psalm 96. The writing is homophonic and isorhythmic, and the tempo is lively, which, along with the piece's major tonality, constitutes exceptions in the landscape of the tintinnabuli style. The organ serves throughout...
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the soloist perspectives for the viola acquired new dimensions after the works composed by Paul Hindemith, Max Reger, Dmitri Shostakovich and Béla Bartók. The viola was increasingly present on the great stages as a soloist instrument. Our study will focus not only on the creation of composers Dmitri Shostakovic...
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本文利用机器学习算法,基于自建《国富论》人机多译本平行语料库,通过分类、聚类、特征选择实验,考察人类专家译本与大语言模型机器译本在组间和组内的翻译风格差异。结果表明,人机译本组间分类效果最好,N元语法特征突显出机器译本受原文影响较大、直译较多,而人类译者能够发挥主体性;人工译本组内分类效果较好,助词、逗号比例、平均词长等特征表明郭大力译本行文简洁明了,语法显化及欧化程度相对较低;机器译本组内分类效果最差,机器译本之间的翻译风格差异并不明显。// This research applies machine learning (ML) algorithms, namely classification, clustering, and attribute selection experiment...
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Stylistic text generation plays a vital role in enhancing communication by reflecting the nuances of individual expression. This paper presents a novel approach for generating text in a specific speaker's style across different languages. We show that by leveraging only 100 lines of text, an individuals unique style can be captured as a high-dimens...
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In the Middle Ages, Western society was fascinated by chess and at the same time, convicted it. All over Europe, archaeological excavations have uncovered both luxurious and very simple pieces. In many churches, mosaics or stained-glass windows depict figures playing this pagan game. Medieval literature is also a source for studying the history of...
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Literary works are the manifestation of human thought. Geguritan is one of the interesting but complex literary works. Figures of speech and imagery are widely used in geguritan. This study aims to analyze figures of speech and imagery in the geguritan anthology in the GEGURITAN TEMBANG ATI Facebook group. This study uses a stylistic approach with...
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Chart visualizations, while essential for data interpretation and communication, are predominantly accessible only as images in PDFs, lacking source data tables and stylistic information. To enable effective editing of charts in PDFs or digital scans, we present PlotEdit, a novel multi-agent framework for natural language-driven end-to-end chart im...
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On the Religious Lexicon of David’s Psalter by Mikołaj Rej (on the Margins of Considerations About the Confessional Affiliation of the First Edition) The aim of this article is to analyse the religious vocabulary present in Mikołaj Rej’s Psałterz Dawidów [David’s Psalter], which was considered doctrinally significant in the polemics of the Reformat...
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This article examines the challenges and considerations involved in translating British oral folklore into the Azerbaijani language. It explores the unique linguistic, cultural, and stylistic features of oral literature that pose difficulties for translators. By analyzing examples of British oral folklore, the study identifies common translation is...
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This article provides a detailed analysis of the stylistic features in thirteen selected poems by Professor Jamal Assadi . Through an examination of both phonetic and syntactic structures, the study identifies key elements such as external and internal rhythm, rhyme patterns, repetition, alliteration, and antithesis, which contribute to the musical...
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Deep learning methods have been increasingly applied to computational linguistics to uncover patterns in text data. This study investigates author-specific word class distributions using part-of-speech (POS) tagging and bigram analysis. By leveraging deep neural networks, we classify literary authors based on POS tag vectors and bigram frequency ma...
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Aleksandar Deroko’s sundials The famous Serbian architect Aleksandar Deroko (1894–1988) designed six wall sundials, all in the period 1931–1939. Two have been realised on private villas in Belgrade: the house of diplomat Obrad Simić in 1931, and the villa od attorney Vladislav Stakić in 1937. The third sundial dates to 1935 and it was constructed...
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This article examines fragment sentences and imperative clauses in carefully edited journalistic writing, specifically in editorials of The Economist . Fragments (e.g. What to do? ) and imperatives (e.g. Take spending cuts as an example ) share formal and functional properties, such as being shorter than canonical clauses and typically having non-t...
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This thesis delves into the intricate dynamics of digital writing processes to explore how eleven Dutch and Flemish fiction writers create their texts. Renée van Marissing, Jens Meijen, Arnoud Rigter, Ellen Van Pelt, Niels ’t Hooft, Jente Posthuma, David Troch, Roos van Rijswijk, Vincent Merckx, Aafke Romeijn, and Dirk Speelman wrote short stories,...
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Despite the density of scholarly engagement with Mozart’s operas, Donna Elvira’s aria ‘Mi tradì quell’alma ingrata’, composed for the 1788 Viennese production of Don Giovanni , has received little sustained, critical attention. Yet this oversight is unjustified, particularly considering the aria’s many stylistic elements that expand beyond the musi...
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The given article is about imagery comparisons in the works of English writers. Comparison in the text of fiction performs various stylistic functions, the main of which are: the function of creating imagery, the function of emotional and intellectual assessment, expressive and super-organizing functions. These comparison functions are associated w...
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Like no other prehistoric period, the emergence and spread of the agro-pastoral way of life involved new relationships with the environment and deep social transformations. Changes were also expressed in the symbolic sphere. The blossoming of new social codes was translated into novel media and forms of figurative expression, coupled with a renewed...
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This paper examines the use of poetry to engage the problems of environmental abuse in postcolonial Gambian society as depicted in the poem 'Bending' from Baaba Sillah's anthology Péñcum Taakusaan. Regarded as part of the intellectual struggle against silent but destructive forces, the paper draws attention to the threats and consequences of enviro...
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Translatability and untranslatability have been significant issues in song translation, particularly regarding figurative expressions. The present study aims to investigate the translatability and untranslatability of figurative language found in the song lyric “How Far I’ll Go” and its translated version, “Seb’rapa Jauh Ku Melangkah”. It also exam...
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The given article is about the role of the comparative method in the study of stylistic issues of genetically unrelated languages. The article uses the method of comparative analysis and made it possible to identify both common similar features and distinctive features and inconsistencies in different languages such as English, Russian and Karakalp...
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This article uses the surge of recent AI-generated simulations of Kafka’s writing as an opportunity to reflect upon both what AI can teach us about Kafka’s writing and what Kafka’s writing can teach us about the age of artificial intelligence. Under the heading “Kafkaesque Algorithms”, this article explores three distinct but related questions that...
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Detecting plagiarism in documents is a well-established task in natural language processing (NLP). Broadly, plagiarism detection is categorized into two types (1) intrinsic: to check the whole document or all the passages have been written by a single author; (2) extrinsic: where a suspicious document is compared with a given set of source document...
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This book invites you to join leading Africa-focused scholars in a conversation that vividly highlights the intricate relationship among communication, media, culture and social change. Communication and Social Change in Africa: Selected Case Studies provides a timely and thought-provoking exploration of diverse and unique understandings in the way...
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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, but their success heavily relies on the quality of pretraining corpora. For Chinese LLMs, the scarcity of high-quality Chinese datasets presents a significant challenge, often limiting their performance. To address this issue, we propose the OpenCSG Chinese Corpus, a series of...
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Today, many years after the Nigeria-Biafra War, the war still constitutes an area of great interest to creative artists, political scientists, historians, environmentalists, military strategists and social scientists (Nigerians and non-Nigerians alike). For many analysts, it was a miracle that Biafra was able to hold out for thirty long months, wit...
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This study investigates the internal mechanisms of BERT, a transformer-based large language model, with a focus on its ability to cluster narrative content and authorial style across its layers. Using a dataset of narratives developed via GPT-4, featuring diverse semantic content and stylistic variations, we analyze BERT's layerwise activations to...
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This study discusses the verses of ta‘ajjubcontained in the Qur'an. Because the Qur'an is a holy book that has high literature, studying the Qur'an requires a linguistic approach, in this case stylistics. The Qur'an has a variety of styles of language in expressing meaning of amazement if the expression of the ta‘ajjub sentence is only based on sig...
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This study is a stylistic analysis of President Donald Trump's speech on illegal immigration and the Democrats' response to it. The objective is to identify the stylistically significant features in the speeches and discuss their effects on the target audience. In order to explain the stylistic features in the context of the speech, qualitative and...
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This article focuses on the archaeological and archaeometric characterization of a glass head pendant in Phoenicio-Punic style from the Marchetti Collection, a formerly private assemblage now belonging to the University of Padova. After the first visual inspection , the typology and appearance of the object raised serious doubts about its authentic...
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This research examines the stylistic obstacles encountering Translation master’s students when rendering Arabic legal texts into English. It delineates the influence of attaining the legal stylistic conventions in delivering a desirable legal translation. The study investigates the 20 participants’ renditions of five Arabic legal documents into Eng...
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The purpose of the study is to determine the content of the value component of the regulative concept ABNEIGING (ANTIPATHY), expressed by the usual metaphors representing the conceptual metaphor ‘Abneigung ist ein Naturwesen’ (Antipathy is a natural organism). The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that, for the first time, the value...
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This article is about language choices in English and Uzbek film and music. Stylistic lexicology focuses on language use in texts which are used in cinema and music style. In multimedia analysis how language is employed across various mediums such as film, music, television, and digital media to convey meaning and evoke emotions and shape audience...
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The objective of this study is to conduct a comprehensive stylistic analysis of Shafak’s novel The Island of Missing Trees by examining the various figures of speech employed throughout the text. Stylistics, as a field of study, plays a vital role in understanding the diverse forms and expressions that writing can take, making it of significant...
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This article aims to fill a gap in the current literature on the pragmatics of Latin by proposing a corpus-based analysis of the different words (e.g., ut, uelut, sicut), phrases (e.g., exempli gratia, uerbi causa), and constructions (e.g., ut puta, si dicas) exploited to signal the process of exemplification. The structures and devices that perfor...
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This study explored the representation of Pakistani identity in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist employing corpus-based approach. Nuance portrayal of Pakistani identity was investigated utilizing selected terms Pakistan, Lahore, Muslim, Urdu and beard and their variations. Drawing on frequency, collocations, concordance lines, and semant...
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The subject of the article is the historical and architectural analysis of the Church of St. Dominic in Turobin, which is a significant example of Renaissance sacred architecturein the Lublin region. The specific objectives include presenting the history of the town and the parish church, its architecture, and interior decoration. The article conta...
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This study identifies the thematic issues in the speeches of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu; it analyses the textual conceptual features employed in projecting the themes and relates these features to the underlying ideological stance and political values projected in the speeches. This is done to elucidate the critical conceptual features in the spee...
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Giovanni Bedotti is a painter, restorer, critic and art dealer, active in the first half of the nineteenth century between France and Piedmont: with the aim of providing practical support to lovers of flemish and dutch painting, he writes the "Guide or dictionary portable", composed of approximately 800 entries relating to the major artists of the...
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This study centers on examining the power dynamics within the gender politics of ancient Greek society, drawing insights from Aeschylus’s play, Agamemnon. In this qualitative research, utilizing textual analysis of both primary and secondary sources, the authors delve into the play to unravel the diverse layers of meaning, cultural contexts, and st...
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The study concentrates on the analysis of diminutive forms of the members of the family, i.e. mother, father, daughter, son in English and Slovak language. We are able to detect specific suffixes in order to create diminutive forms. The target is to compare these known suffixes and analyse their occurrence, frequency and usage in the electronic cor...
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The Linguistic Image of the Mother of God in the Texts of Religious Songs of Book and Folk Origin This article analyses the stylistic means of verbalising the linguistic image of the Mother of God in the texts of religious songs of book and folk origin. It has been established that the image in question combines pagan ideas about the Mother Goddess...
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While the instructional significance of teacher discourse is widely recognized, its interpersonal functions remain underexplored. This study employs Rapport-Management Theory (RMT) to analyze how a Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher, characterized by an authoritative teaching style, strategically utilized discourse strategies acros...
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This article tries to identify some forms of artistic re-elaboration of colloquial Latin in the Aeneid, and to understand how Virgil integrated them in his work. After the definition of colloquial Latin, the method is explained: it combines a linguistic and stylistic approach with a pragmatic and sociolinguistic one. The results that emerged from t...
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Using Hebrews as a test case, we investigate how an author’s participation in his literary network influences his writing habits. Our theoretical framework is that no author writes in a vacuum: all authors recycle stylistic habits from their literary contemporaries. We develop and implement a statistical procedure to trace stylistic influences, bot...
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Objective: This study investigates the comparative analysis of literary and cinematic language in Lionel Shriver's novel We Need to Talk About Kevin (2002) and Lynne Ramsay's film adaptation (2011). The aim is to explore the continuities and ruptures between the two forms, focusing on how they shape perceptions of motherhood, guilt, and psychologic...
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https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/muso-2024-0007; The paper discusses Georgian opera from the 1920s to the 1950s. It combined the function of mass culture, aiming to control citizens’ behaviour and impact the masses to achieve socialist goals. The totalitarian regime strategically utilized the opera as a means of cultural expression to reinforce...
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Being a secondary part of sentence richly expressed in written texts and occurring in a wide range of contexts, the Predicative Adjunct has long been in the linguists’ attention. A unanimously accepted fact is that it has a derivational history, being conditioned by the verb and implied in a double subordination type of relation. The Predicative Ad...
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