<em>Address to young men on the right use of Greek literature</em> by Saint Basil: A corpus stylistic approach

Authors

  • Georgios Alexandropoulos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.globe.v2i0.1048

Keywords:

Saint Basil, Communicative and rhetorical goal, Style

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the text Address to young men on the right use of Greek literature by Saint Basil using corpus stylistics. In this interdisciplinary study rhetorical analysis is combined with linguistic theories and corpus-linguistic tools. Via application of this methodological framework, we can extract secure and meaningful results as regards the style and the ideological intentionality of Saint Basil in this text.

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Published

02-10-2015

Issue

Vol. 2 (2015)

Section

Open Section

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