Voloshynovska I. Stylistics, Thematic and Author Attribution of Scientific and Belletristic texts (based on the material of English, German, Ukrainian languages)

A new approach for the comparative typological studies of style, thematic and author attribution of English, German and Ukrainian scientific and belletristic texts is proposed at the present thesis; criteria for the determination of scientific and belletristic style in English, German and Ukrainian languages are depicted on the basis of rank-frequency word distribution method; thematic attribution of English scientific texts is performed using method of simultaneous monitoring grouping of texts and their corresponding words (principal component analysis) together with the parameter of n-gram words frequency; procedure of author attribution of English scientific texts combining the principal component analysis method with the parameter of n-gram words is tested; the optimal value of the n-gram words order is determined for author attribution of English, German and Ukrainian belletristic texts.