Pull Out All The Stops: Textual Analysis via Punctuation Sequences (Mason Porter, UCLA)
Shanahan B460, Harvey Mudd College 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA, United StatesAbstract: Whether enjoying the lucid prose of a favorite author or slogging through some other writer's cumbersome, heavy-set prattle (full of parentheses, em-dashes, compound adjectives, and Oxford commas), readers will notice stylistic signatures not only in word choice and grammar, but also in punctuation itself. Indeed, visual sequences of punctuation from different authors produce marvelously […]