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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781687103321

Autore

Johnstone Barbara

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Pub., , 1991

ISBN

1-283-22231-0

9786613222312

90-272-8294-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 pages)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser., 18

Disciplina

492/.7/0141

Soggetti

Arabic language - Style

Repetition (Rhetoric)

Repetition in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-130).

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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