It included, with minor stylistic changes, wording of the Act of January 8 and promulgation and notification, drafted on February 1. Promulgation and notification do not carry legal weight and do not change the meaning of a legal document.
Allen B. Ruch has dubbed Joyce's new language "dreamspeak," and describes it as "a language that is basically English, but extremely malleable and all-inclusive, rich with portmanteau words, stylistic parodies, and complex puns".
The novels are not without pretensions: literary and historical allusions, stylistic devices and word plays, which some have compared to the works of Umberto Eco or Alexandre Dumas.
At a theoretically trivial level, computers are employed to scan texts and to produce, more rapidly and more reliably than was possible in the past, such valuable aids to linguistic and stylistic research as word lists, frequency counts, and concordances.
Mr. Kirschenbaum, whose earlier book, "Mechanisms," analyzed experimental electronic writing, said he was less interested in analyzing the stylistic impact of word processing than in recovering its early history, particularly its adoption by mainstream writers.
There's a case to be made for technology allowing us to become lazier, correcting our spelling for us and alerting us to stylistic niggles like word repetition, yet at the same time, it's learning from us.
She does not obfuscate with stylistic idiosyncrasies or use words you have to look up in the dictionary.
If the syntactical role of a prepositional phrase is to modify other words, the stylistic one is to add nuance and control cadence.
In urban as well as stylistic terms, in other words, Stone's design was a pivot in the reconciliation of opposed points of view.
Whether it was correct is a more suitable question when it comes to performing the Baroque repertory, which is defined by its precision and stylistic rigor — in other words, by its correctness.
