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The process of changing the modern and contemporary name of stone seated bodhisattva from hansongsa temple site and its meaning.

This paper studies the changing process of the honorific name of the Stone Seated Bodhisattva from Hansongsa Temple Site according to the modern and contemporary political and social circumstances. The National Treasure no. 124, the stone image, was carried out to Japan in 1911, donated to Tokyo Imperial Museum, and got the honorific name, 'Tara Bodhisattva,' and the record of the remaining Treasure no. 81, the stone statue, considered as Manjusri, was discovered in Korea. Also, The return of National Treasure no. 124 in 1966 is considered to be the significant event for the change of the honorific name again. There was a disagreement between Korea and Japan on the significance of the image. Japanese academia agreed to return the image because it considered the treasure was not worth possession whilst Korean academic circle treated it as a sculpture that represents the return of Korean remains scattered in Japan. After the return of the National Treasure no. 124, Stone Seated Bodhisattva from Hansongsa Temple Site has been studied actively through the methodology of stylistic analysis in Korean academia. As a result, the overall opinion that Manjusri as the National Treasure no. 124 and Samantabhadra as the treasure no. 81 should be reconsidered because, at present, due to the impairment of animal-shaped pedestals which is considered as the clear evidence for two figures, there is no way to distinguish which stone is Manjusri and which Samantabhadra. Through the above discussion this paper tried to reflect on the significance of the stone seated statues of Hansongsa temple site by looking at the changes of the honorific name tracing the modern and contemporary research history of the stone seated images.

STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF SURAKH AL-QUBUR: A SHORT STORY BY KAHLIL GIBRAN / ANALISIS STILISTIKA CERPEN SURAKH AL-QUBUR KARYA KAHLIL GIBRAN

This study aims to reveal the stylistic used in a short story written by Kahlil Gibran entitled “Surakh al-Qubur” and also to describe the effect of it toward meaning. This is a descriptive qualitative research that used stylistic analysis to show the aesthetics side found in the short story. Based on data analysis, it was found that there are five categories of language styles in short story Surakh al-Qubur, they are: first, lexical (synonym and typical words); second, grammatical (verb and noun); third, rhetorical (alliteration, asyndeton, assonance, chiasmus, polysyndeton, and hyperbole) and figure of speech (metaphor, personification, simile, and eponym); fourth, cohesion and connectors such as al-wawu, al-fa’u, tsumma, au, and am; and fifth, character speech that can be analyzed using narration and dialogue. The influence of stylistic on meaning is that readers get the information directly or indirectly, feels sadness, gives advice, gets a picture of injustice, makes readers curious and more focused.

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Large-Scale Stylistic Analysis of Formality in Academia and Social Media

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• Svetha Venkatesh 19 &
• Dinh Phung 19  
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The dictum ‘publish or perish’ has influenced the way scientists present research results as to get published, including exaggeration and overstatement of research findings. This behavior emerges patterns of using language in academia. For example, recently it has been found that the proportion of positive words has risen in the content of scientific articles over the last 40 years, which probably shows the tendency in scientists to exaggerate and overstate their research results. The practice may deviate from impersonal and formal style of academic writing. In this study the degree of formality in scientific articles is investigated through a corpus of 14 million PubMed abstracts. Three aspects of stylistic features are explored: expressing emotional information, using first person pronouns to refer to the authors, and mixing English varieties. Trends of these stylistic features in scientific publications for the last four decades were discovered. A comparison on the emotional information with other online user-generated media, including online encyclopedias, web-logs, forums, and micro-blogs, was conducted. Advances in cluster computing are employed to process large scale data, with 5.8 terabytes and 3.6 billions of data points from all the media. The results suggest the potential of pattern recognition in data at scale.

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Nguyen, T., Venkatesh, S., Phung, D. (2016). Large-Scale Stylistic Analysis of Formality in Academia and Social Media. In: Cellary, W., Mokbel, M., Wang, J., Wang, H., Zhou, R., Zhang, Y. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2016. WISE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10042. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48743-4_11

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