Hispanic Review

Hispanic Review
Author: James Pyle Wickersham Crawford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1955
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Includes bibliographical material and "Review."

Hispania

Hispania
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 636
Release: 1955
Genre: Civilization, Hispanic
ISBN:

Vol. 1 includes "Organization number," published Nov. 1917.

La CorĂ³nica

La CorĂ³nica
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 664
Release: 1997
Genre: Spanish language
ISBN:

"Spanish medieval language and literature newsletter." (varies).

Repetition in Discourse

Repetition in Discourse
Author: Barbara Johnstone
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1994
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

In recent years, many humanists and social scientists have rejected the notion that understanding is a simple matter of encoding and decoding. Current theory in linguistic pragmatics, in rhetoric, in cultural anthropology, and in literary theory, stresses the situated, interactive, rhetorical nature of understanding. Various approaches to the ways understanding is constructed in the process of interaction--such as interactional sociolinguistics, epistemic rhetoric, ethnography of communication, functionalist poetics, and reader response theory--make reference to the crucial role of repetition in this process. Linguists have examined repetition in conversation and in language acquisition. Anthropologists and folklorists have studied the role of parallelism as a feature of performance and as a recurring characteristic of ritual forms of talk. Students of poetics discuss repetition as a key feature of artistic language. Literary theorists and rhetoricians discuss "intertextuality," or the ways in which the authors of new texts make use of old texts. Clearly, anyone interested in a comprehensive theory of understanding must pay close attention to the mechanisms and functions of repetition. -- Preface.