Consonance as a Stylistic Feature for Authorship Attribution of Historical Texts

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Lubomir Ivanov ◽  
Brandon Neilsen
Keyword(s):  
Authorship Attribution ◽  
Stylistic Feature ◽  
Historical Texts

scholarly journals Historical sociolinguistics and authorship elucidation in medieval private written correspondence:

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-394
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio Cutillas Espinosa ◽  
Juan Manuel Hernández Campoy
Keyword(s):  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Authorship Attribution ◽  
Forensic Linguistics ◽  
Sociolinguistic Variation ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Historical Sociolinguistics ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Archival Source ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Corpora of historical correspondence and their social metadata offers a very useful archival source to carry out studies in Historical Sociolinguistics. However, illiteracy among female population and the subsequent use of scribes make authorship and gender constitute some of the most controversial socio-demographic issues when doing sociohistorical research. Letters might not have been autographs but rather dictated to a scribe, which can lead to the distortion of findings concerning authorship and gender-based patterns, from the perspective of sociolinguistic variation. On the other hand, Forensic Linguistics appeared as a branch of Applied Linguistics to assist the law in legal processes, where authorship elucidation is often one of the most disputed questions. In this paper we will present an overview of the main approaches to authorship attribution within Forensic Linguistics and relate them to sociohistorical data in the case of the letters by Margery Paston, putting their theorical tenets and techniques to the test of time. The data suggests that formal (spelling) features are less indicative of authorship than other morphosyntactic markers. Forensic Linguistics and Historical Sociolinguistics can mutually benefit each other, by sharing their expertise in authorship research and its application to current and historical texts in their social context

Metaphor As A Stylistic Feature In Biblical Texts Of Retribution

2018 ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Saja AbdulAmeer ◽  
Riyadh Tariq Kadhim Al-Ameedi
Keyword(s):  
Stylistic Feature ◽  
Biblical Texts

Manuscript Catalogs and Inventories of Books from the Lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania – Some Problems of Publishing Rules

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 107-121
Author(s):  
Lilia Kowkiel ◽  
Arvydas Pacevičius ◽  
Iwona Pietrzkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
Grand Duchy ◽  
Book Culture

Historians and publishers of historical sources have a lot of problems with the texts written in different languages and alphabets, which were created at different times, in the multilingual areas inhabited by many nations following different religions. The historians of book culture have the same problems with texts of inventories and catalogues of books, which are the primary source of knowledge about the content of libraries. At present it’s also important the historical texts to be published in the digital form. This article is a part of the discussion on this very important subject.

Costruzioni ipotetiche parentetiche usate come marcatori di cortesia in latino tardo: il tipo si placet, si videtur, si molestum non est

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 477-488
Author(s):  
Chiara Fedriani
Keyword(s):  
Illocutionary Force ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stylistic Feature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Topic Management

Summary:This paper looks at uses and pragmatic functions of five hypothetic clauses used parenthetically in Late Latin to soften the illocutionary force of potentially face-threatening acts such as orders and requests. Specifically, the data show that these politeness markers typically mitigate a very specific type of interactional move, i.e., meta-textual proposals with topic-management, turn-yielding, and discourseorganizational concerns. Moreover, the corpus-based study has revealed that they are found above all in Augustine’s philosophical dialogues. Evidence from earlier research has shown, on the other hand, that in Classical Latin si placet was used almost exclusively in Cicero’s philosophical dialogues: this suggests a process of imitation within a very specific discourse tradition, where these markers are perceived as a stylistic feature typical of urbane conversations among educated friends.

Not All Character N-grams Are Created Equal: A Study in Authorship Attribution

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Upendra Sapkota ◽  
Steven Bethard ◽  
Manuel Montes ◽  
Thamar Solorio
Keyword(s):  
Authorship Attribution
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