Digital marketing is influential to advertising businesses, with a veritable platform being SMSs. SMSs, with their widespread usage, have generated several academic enquiries. They have, however, ...been abused by telemarketers who inundate subscribers with spam-unsolicited and indiscriminately sent SMSs. A linguistic stylistic analysis of purposively collected spam SMS data provides insight into Nigerian spam SMSs' unique linguistic features. Nigerian spam SMSs include categories such as network/service provider texts, bank texts, sport texts, health texts, religion texts, and bonanza/jackpot texts. Spam SMSs were primarily employed for advertisement, with phone users, the ultimate "victims," receiving an average of 3.4 messages per day. Nigerian spam SMSs, despite usually being sent from "official" sources, contain linguistic features like textese, graphological deviation, and non-conformity to punctuation rules, while also employing code-mixing and internet text notations. They are also persuasive thanks to their use of verbal inducement, emotive language, polite salutations and "call-to-action" verbs.
Linguistic-stylistics explores the use of language, and how it (language) affects the building of a text to create effective meaning. Language is about meaning, as such, speakers and writers are ...often conscious of their language choice to create meaning in every given social context. The present study is a linguistic stylistic analysis of parliamentary type of minutes of meetings selected from two Faculties in Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti. The study adopts the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistic SFL to analyze tense, mood and sentence types in the selected minutes of meetings. The study reports that a minute of meeting, being a report of speech activities is normally in the past tense, and the mood is predominantly declarative, and sentences are selected to reflect a narrative piece.
Cilj je istraživanja lingvostilističkih priloga časopisa Umjetnost riječi pokušaj utvrđivanja metodologije deskriptivnih postupaka u analizi stilski relevantnih činjenica jezika književnoumjetničkoga ...djela kakva je primijenjena u radovima dijela pripadnika tzv. zagrebačke stilističke škole šezdesetih godina dvadesetoga stoljeća. Raščlanjivanje književnoga teksta jezikoslovnom aparaturom promatra se u suodnosu s heterogeno (makrostilistički) shvaćenom stilskom kategorijom unutar te škole, a osobita se pozornost posvećuje pitanju reprezentativnosti književnoumjetničkoga teksta kao predloška jezikoslovne analize koja istražuje stileme s pomoću kriterija stila kao izbora i otklona. Provedenom se analizom nastoji pridonijeti usustavljivanju dvojnosti stilističke discipline te potaknuti da se u kontekstu suvremene
mnoštvenosti stilističkih pristupa, neusustavljenoga nazivlja i individualnih koncepata stila, jasnije odredi stilistički doprinos strukturalnoga jezikoslovlja i istaknu one njegove tekovine koje nude poticajna razmišljanja u recentnim proučavanjima jezika književnoumjetničkoga djela.
The interaction of literary and linguistic approaches in the process of analyzing a literary text makes it possible to penetrate into the depth of the artistic work. This is the relevance of the ...study. The authors conducted a philological analysis of the ethical S. Zweig’s short story “The Governess” using these approaches. The following means were identified to characterize the psychological tension of the characters: climax and introspection. The analysis of linguistic-stylistic means in the description of the presented images of characters and their interactions is carried out. The analysis revealed the following tropes: direct nominations amplified by the epithets; repetitions of verbs and nouns; artistic comparisons; metaphors; metonymies; paraphrases; hyperboles; personifications; internal parallelisms; figures of “default”; internal monologues; rhetorical questions and exclamations. Three stages of dynamization of the emotional experiences of the main characters are identified with the help of linguistic-stylistic means: 1) slight suspicion, vague contradiction, caution; 2) distrust, suspicion, nervousness, agitation; 3) open protest, experience, grief, despair, disappointment, tears, silence, darkness. The conclusion states that S. Zweig made the best presentation of linguistic and stylistic means to characterize the main characters and the growth of their emotional tension.
The article analyzes the peculiarities of specific vocabulary and reveals their functions in various issues related to the novels by Pavel Arkhipovych Zahrebelnyi, one of the most famous writers of ...the 20th century. His works reflect three main spheres of human activity: military patriotic, state-historical, production and creative. Depending on the problems of the works, the author widely uses the terminology, professional and archaic vocabulary, which performs various functions in the text: a representative (nominative), communicative (informative), descriptive, emotional and expressive. Among the functional styles of modern Ukrainian language a special place belongs to art, it is the core of the stylistic system of the Ukrainian language, that actively interacts with all other styles, influencing their formation and development, because the subject of figurative image in art style are all spheres of human life. This is confirmed by the work of the outstanding novelist P. Zahrebelnyi, which occupies a special place in Ukrainian fiction, remaining extremely relevant both in ideological and thematic content, and in artistic qualities, including the richness of language and linguistic means. A person with analytical thinking, having encyclopedic knowledge from various spheres of socio-political life, science, culture; thoughtful, often ironic or sarcastic, he was able to philosophically, scientifically evaluate both the events of the past and the present. In the modern world, special vocabulary, in particular terminological and professional, is actively developing, interacting with other tokens, in particular common words, widely functioning mainly in professional texts of scientific style. According to the dictionary of linguistic terms, special vocabulary is words or phrases that name objects and concepts that belong to different areas of human activity and are not commonly used. The terminology in the historical novel fulfills its main function – carries out the nomination of various concepts, and also it is a stylistic means of creating a peculiar coloring of the corresponding epoch. In the novel on industrial topics the terms are used both in direct and figurative sense, enhancing artistic expression, emotionality, and poetry. Being original in form, diverse in problematics, the novel “ThousandYear-Old Nikolai” is full of various expressive tropes with specific vocabulary. Based on terms and professionalisms, the author creates metaphorical figures, comparisons, antitheses, enlarges synonymic rows with author’s neologisms, combining a bitter irony with sarcasm and grotesque, creates cartoon-comic descriptions, uses both modern and archaic vocabulary for speech and portrait characteristics of heroes and creating professional space.
The article highlights the features of the idiostyle of Victor Domontovych, a writer of 1920s, a representative of modernist artistic discourse. The stylistic manner of the author's writing shows his ...intellectualism, principles of his extraordinary scientifically oriented linguistic thinking. V. Domontovych depicts artistic reality through the prism of the ontological clash of categories of rational and irrational, real and unreal, intellectual and primitive-bourgeois, sexual and asexual. Using the concepts of plausible and implausible, real and conditional, the author characterizes the psycho-behavioral stereotypes of his characters in order to comment and evaluate their actions and decisions; he often uses a descriptive and contemplative manner, and forms of logical conclusions; therefore, a symbiosis of scientific and fictional presentation is formed.
Domontovych's texts are full of ironic and mocking intonations in order to expose spirituality, low culture, meanness; the author strongly condemns selfishness, callousness, dishonesty in the behavior of the characters; the sharpness of his critical vision is directed against the arrogance of the intelligentsia, unjustified rationalism, scientific-like thinking, and bourgeoisie. The intellectual novels of the writer can be considered as extended metaphorical constructions, integral figurative and symbolic structures, profound artistic worldview carriers, as well as systems of meaning mythologizing. The author’s usage of linguistic and stylistic means is not extensive; they are unusual in their associative-figurative aspect and intended for the domain of cognitively meaningful perception. The expressiveness of texts is achieved through an implicit coded word usage, there is space for the reader to think creatively as the texts rely on the conceptual interaction within the system Author-Text-Reader.
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