Repetition in Arabic discourse : paradigms, syntagms, and the ecology of language / Barbara Johnstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnstone, Barbara.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 18.

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Style.

Arabic language.

Repetition (Rhetoric).

Repetition in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-130).

ISBN:

1-283-22231-0

9786613222312

90-272-8294-3

OCLC:

297319278