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FORMS AND DEGREES OF REPETITION IN TEXTS - GABR...

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. The analysis of repetitive elements and
structures in texts with objective mathematical means can serve several practical and
theoretical purposes  among them: Characterisation of texts by means of parameters (measures 
indicators) as taken from established mathematical statistics or specifically constructed ones
in individual cases. Comparison of texts on the basis of their quantitative characteristics and
classification of the texts by the results. 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.

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