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Research Result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Volume 12, Issue №3, 2026 PDF
EDITORIAL

When Human Writing Looks Artificial: Perceived AI-Likeness as a Property of Text

A piece of writing can look as if it were produced by AI even when it wasn’t, and conversely, text generated by AI can still be mistaken for human ...
THEORY OF LANGUAGE

Linguistic indicators of persuasion in social advertising

Relevance. The article is devoted to the study of persuasive linguistic indicators in social advertising, one of the speech practices (genres) of the discourse of social harmony, which is ...
APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Spearman's rank distance as a tool for stylometric attribution: a comparative analysis on heterogeneous corpora

This paper presents an empirical comparison of a metric based on Spearman's rank correlation coefficient with traditional and relatively new distance measures (Burrows's Delta, Cosine Delta, Labbé distance, Soergel ...

Discourse-Organizing Metadiscourse in ELF Academic Speech: A Corpus Study Across Speech Events

This corpus-based study examines how English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) speakers utilize metadiscourse (MD) features to structure and regulate the flow of academic spoken discourse across various speech ...

Cognitive-semantic mechanisms of collective conceptualization in English animal community nominations: a corpus-based analysis

English animal group nouns not only denote groups of animals but also reflect different ways of construing multiple entities as a unified whole, making their role in the conceptualization ...

Cooperative responses of a voice assistant and a psychologist: adherence to the principles of Herbert Paul Grice and Geoffrey Leech

This study examines the pragmatic features of interaction with the voice assistant "Alisa" in the context of intimate-personal communication, in comparison with written Internet communication on psychological forums. As ...

AI as a literary author from the reader’s perspective: findings from a psycholinguistic experiment assessing synthetic amateur prose

Large language models (LLMs) are performing an increasing variety of tasks, including generating long texts that aspire to literary quality. The aim of this article is to compare subjective ...