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Forms and Degrees of Repetition in Texts
eBook - Detection and Analysis, ISSN
ISBN/EAN: 9783110412024
Umbreit-Nr.: 8507127
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 220 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 10.03.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>The present volume presents objective methods to detect and analyse various forms of repetitions. Repetition of textual elements is more than a superficial phenomenon. It may even be considered as constitutive for units and relations in a text: on a primary level when no other way exists to establish a unit as in a musical composition (a motif can be recognised as such only after at least one repetition) and on a secondary, artistic level, where repetition is a consequence of the transfer of the equivalence principle from the paradigmatic axis to the syntagmatic one as showed by R. Jakobson.<br>The analysis of repetitive elements and structures in texts with objective mathematical means can serve several practical and theoretical purposes, among them:<br>Characterisation of texts by means of parameters (measures, indicators) as taken from established mathematical statistics or specifically constructed ones in individual cases.<br>Comparison of texts on the basis of their quantitative characteristics and classification of the texts by the results.<br>Research for the laws of text, which control the mechanisms connected to text creation. As a remote aim, the construction of a theory of text consisting of a system of text laws. The final attempt of every possible quantitative text analysis is the construction of a text theory. The book illustrates this on examples of such laws and corresponding empirical tests.</p><p></p><p></p>
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- Autorenportrait
- <p><strong>Gabriel Altmann</strong>, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany;<strong>Reinhard Köhler</strong>, Universität Trier, Germany.</p>