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View article: Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language
Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language Open
This paper examines the manifestation of individual style through the lens of a specific language category: the interjection. The analysis considers how interjections are used as a resource in the dramatic dialogue of three Restoration pla…
View article: The Power of Language: How Discourse Influences Society (Second Edition) By L. Young, M. Fitzgerald and S. Fitzgerald (2018)
The Power of Language: How Discourse Influences Society (Second Edition) By L. Young, M. Fitzgerald and S. Fitzgerald (2018) Open
The Power of Language: How Discourse Influences Society (Second Edition) By L. Young, M. Fitzgerald and S. Fitzgerald (2018) Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 381pp.
View article: Stylistic palimpsests: Computational stylistic perspectives on precursory authorship in Aphra Behn’s drama
Stylistic palimpsests: Computational stylistic perspectives on precursory authorship in Aphra Behn’s drama Open
Computational stylistics has developed various methods for investigating and attributing authorship of collaborative literary texts. This article investigates ‘precursory authorship’ (Love, 2002): that is, the authorial traces of a source …
View article: Style and chronology: A stylometric investigation of Aphra Behn’s dramatic style and the dating of <i>The Young King</i>
Style and chronology: A stylometric investigation of Aphra Behn’s dramatic style and the dating of <i>The Young King</i> Open
Aphra Behn’s dramatic outputs are recognized for their diversity and responsiveness to trends in Restoration drama. A stylometric approach is used to investigate the linguistic dimension of Behn’s dramatic style, with a particular focus on…
View article: Tudor women writing: Multimodal style and identity in the English letters and prose of Queen Katherine Parr and Princess Elizabeth
Tudor women writing: Multimodal style and identity in the English letters and prose of Queen Katherine Parr and Princess Elizabeth Open
This paper investigates how the stylistic choices of sixteenth-century female writers can be understood as an act of identity when read in their local and public contexts. Focusing on the mid-sixteenth-century writings of two elite women, …
View article: ‘The vsuall speach of the Court’? Investigating language change in the Tudor family network (1544–1556)
‘The vsuall speach of the Court’? Investigating language change in the Tudor family network (1544–1556) Open
This paper considers how micro-level analysis can enrich our understanding of macro-level processes of language change, using a case study of the Tudors. It explores how language use in the Tudor family network relates to the role of the C…