Evaluation of the Frequency and Variety of Diction in Literary Style:A Comparative Study of the Selected Works of Taha Hussein,Mikhael Naemah, and Jubran Khalil Jubran

Literary and critical studies in the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century have changed into an independent discipline which is called stylistics. Stylistics applies the linguistic principles and methods to the study of the literary styles in an objective way. The diction of the poet is one of the most distinguished features of his style, which not only reflects his method and style but also the kind of sentences he writes. Therefore, it is expected that the study of the frequency of the words and diction in literary works indicates one of the most important features and distinguished qualities of the style. The researchers have attempted in this article to show which of the texts and samples studied have more variety of diction and how the writer has used the variety of diction in his work. The researchers also try to offer a theoretical framework for the study of the variety of an author’s diction, in the case of this study the selected works of Taha Hussein, Michael Naemah and Jubran Khalil Jubran. The study in this research is based on statistical stylistics. Following the selection of samples of texts and explaining the methods of evaluating the literary styles and analysis of the sample texts, the following results were achieved: the frequency of the variety of diction of Jubran Khalil Jubran was 33%, in Mikhael Naimah 40%, and in Taha Husein 32%. Moreover, this research shows that the average percent of the frequency and variety of diction in Jubran Khalil Jubran was 84% while this in Michael Naemah and Taha Hussein was respectively 74% and 67%.