Repetition in Arabic discourse: paradigms, syntagms, and the ecology of language
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Main Author: Johnstone, Barbara 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam J. Benjamins Pub. 1991
Series:Pragmatics & beyond 18
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In this examination of expository prose in contemporary Arabic, structural and semantic repetition is found to be responsible both for linguistic cohesion and for rhetorical force. Johnstone identifies and discusses repetitive features on every level of analysis. Writers in Arabic use lexical couplets consisting of conjoined synonyms, which create new semantic paradigms as they evoke old ones. Morphological roots and patterns are repeated at close range, and this creates phonological rhyme as well. Regular patterns of paraphrase punctuate texts, and patterns of parallelism mark the internal st
REPETITION IN ARABIC DISCOURSE PARADIGMS, SYNTAGMS, AND THE ECOLOGY OF LANGUAGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; Table of contents; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2: PARADIGMATIC STRUCTURE AND PARALLELISTIC DISCOURSE; CHAPTER 3: LEXICAL COUPLETS AND SEMANTIC PARADIGMS; CHAPTER 4: MORPHOLOGICAL REPETITION; CHAPTER 5: PARAPHRASE AND RHETORICAL PRESENTATION; CHAPTER 6: PARALLELISM AND PARATAXIS; CHAPTER 7: REASONS FOR REPETITION: SOURCES OF CONSTRAINT ON ARABIC DISCOURSE; REFERENCES.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (130 pages)
ISBN:1556192843
9027250286
9027282943
9781556192845
9789027250285
9789027282941

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