Repetitions of word forms in texts : an approach to establishing text structure / by Elena Tarasheva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tarasheva, Elena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Repetition in literature.

Repetition (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores how experienced authors repeat word forms in three different genres: research articles, short stories and political speeches. Methods from corpus linguistics are used to elicit all the repeated word forms in each text and then the material is analysed to establish the nature of the repetitions. The analysis seeks answers to the questions: in what naming complexes are the words repeated; is the same concept evoked; is the referential type repeated; are there metaphoric, prag...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-158).

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-14241-4

9786613142412

1-4438-2792-4

OCLC:

816845397