LINGUIST List 22.405 Sun Jan 23 2011 Books: Discourse Analysis/Ling & Lit/Text/Corpus Linguistics: Tarasheva Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Chris Humphrey , Repetitions of Word Forms in Texts: Tarasheva Message 1: Repetitions of Word Forms in Texts: Tarasheva Date: 20-Jan-2011 From: Chris Humphrey <chumphreyc-s-p.org> Subject: Repetitions of Word Forms in Texts: Tarasheva E-mail this message to a friend Title: Repetitions of Word Forms in Texts Subtitle: An Approach to Establishing Text Structure Published: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing                 http://www.c-s-p.org Author: Elena Tarasheva Hardback: ISBN: 9781443826624 Pages: 165 Price: U.K. £ 34.99 Abstract: 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, pragmatic or other shifts in the meaning of the word? Taxonomy of repetition types is evolved which leads to conclusions about the role of repetition in creating coherent texts. The book provides evidence that repetitions amount to about 60% of the words in a text and they form groups of chains typical for each genre. Thus the way words are repeated serves to create the skeleton of a genre. Comparisons show that in texts written by inexperienced authors the repetitions are considerably fewer than in the work of the experienced ones. The study also reveals which types of repetition decrease the quality of the text. Specific applications of the theory are suggested for assessing the quality of a text, creating short summaries and building good texts in the respective genres. The study is placed within the framework of discourse studies of lexical repetitions and presents a brief non-technical description of the linguistic field. Inasmuch as the issue of how words relate to objects in reality is one of the criteria for assessing the repetitions, an overview is given and the analysis elicits specific reference types. Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Ling & Literature                             Pragmatics                             Text/Corpus Linguistics Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52771 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Page Updated: 23-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.