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Stylistic Analysis
Abstract In the humanities, the term style usually refers to a systematic choice of means of expression in a sign system, e. g. language, that is characteristic of an author or a genre or an epoch, etc. Stylometry uses these features, in the case of texts, e. g. lexis, syntax, semantics, and text structure, to attribute authorship, to profile authors, or even to assign periods and genres by means of quantitative methods such as clustering or classification. Stilometric methods were applied to religious texts very early on and, as can be seen from the history of the analysis of the Pauline epistles, reflect important stages in the development of stilometry from univariate to multivariate analysis, which today is usually carried out in a probabilistic framework with numerous test repetitions.
Keywords Stylometry, Authorship, Genre
