ABSTRACT

The article will focus on H. Beam Piper’s classical story Omnilingual (1957). This Piper-esque writing has entered the records of the science fiction prose for the ‘Martian’ periodic table of elements, being synonymous with a scientific ‘Rosetta-like stone’ in the decipherment area. The work, while having a search potential in text analysis and stylistics, may add in a parallel fashion some lustre to the validity of science as a communicative channel in non-conventional circumstances. In order to capture stylistic features of the novelette, a number of quantitative indicators are drawn in. The study will concentrate on vocabulary-richness indexes (TTR, entropy, RR, RR_Mc, G, ATL, HL, MATTR, and Lambda), a complex assessment of activity (Busemann’s coefficient, the chi-square testing classification), and a sketch of the Belza chain analysis. The goal of the article is to find distinctive features of the piece in question, and point out ways for further research.

摘要

本文将重点介绍H. Beam Piper的经典故事《全语》（1957年）。这部派珀风格的作品已进入“火星人”元素周期表的科幻散文记录，与解密地区中的科学“罗塞塔状石头”同义。尽管在文本分析和文体学上具有搜索潜力，但这项工作可能以并行的方式为科学在非常规情况下作为交流渠道的有效性增添了些许光泽。为了捕捉中篇小说的风格特征，引入了许多定量指标。研究将集中在词汇丰富度指标（TTR，熵，RR，RR _Mc，G，ATL，HL，MATTR和Lambda），复杂的活动评估（Busemann系数，卡方检验分类）和Belza链分析草图。本文的目的是找到所讨论作品的鲜明特征，并指出进一步研究的方法。