From a humanities perspective, a VA constitutes an interesting phenomenon of enculturation (Holmqvist and Płuciennik, 2010) that deserves to be studied more in-depth, based on larger corpora.
we expect that the large-scale identification of VAs and other such stylistic devices is not only important in the humanities and for cultural reasons, but also in natural language processing to avoid mistakes in tasks such as machine translation and fact extraction.