Examples Of Repetition Research Articles

Poetic Repetition in Paterson

Paterson is a poem and a film about a man and a town, both called Paterson. Jim Jarmusch’s adaptation is a contemporary tribute not only to William Carlos Williams, Paterson’s author and a prominent figure of American modernity, but to the poetry of everyday life. Focusing on the repetition and transformation of scenes and gestures of daily routine as well as of characters, this analysis traces how poetry is adapted to the media of film, slowly revealing the beauty of ordinary existence, an essential theme in the work of Williams. Besides, questions of identity in the context of tradition are also discussed examining twins, a salient example of repetition in Jarmusch’s film.

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The purpose of the article is to illustrate the argumentative-pragmatic function of rhetorical techniques using the examples of repetition which is very popular in modern French political rhetoric. The purpose of argumentation is to influence the audience. The implementation of the task of argumentation is associated with expressiveness, which, in turn, is realized through the use of rhetorical techniques. The aesthetic and persuasive features of rhetorical devices are interrelated to such an extent that the term “rhetorical device” is often replaced by the term “argumentative device”; moreover, devices are considered as an element of thought.

Literary Text Constructing Possibility

Nowadays, the study of a text, as the highest communication unit of language and speech, complex speech act and its structural and functional aspects, is quite relevant, as any type of text functions in specific speech act. Among the possibilities of text construction, identifying the means of component (constituents of text or metatexts) interconnection is one of the important tasks. Lexical and semantic repetitions (of words or word combinations) are also discussed next to the components such as tense and mood forms of a verb, inserted words and expressions, synonyms or antonyms, and pronoun substitutions. And the goal of our research is to discuss these lexical and semantic repetitions in literary texts. We tried to analyze these forms in short stories, that are mainly characterized by short, laconic and dynamic narration style and distinguished by their specific rhythm. Thus, in our research we study the repetition as one of the linguistic possibilities of constructing Georgian literary text and, as we have already mentioned it is also considered as one of the means of component (text or metatexts) interconnection that forms the logical unity in a text. Based on the study results, it can be concluded that verb predominates among the repeated lexical units (32%), and then comes the noun -27%; adjective - 5%; adverb - 14%; particle size - 8% and all the other units comprises 14%.According to the research findings, the following units were used for logical coherence in the text and its components: 1. repetitions of one and the same lexical units and 2. repetitions of word combinations; Both, contact (existing in the neighboring sentence) and remote (after one or more sentences) repetition patterns were found in the study materials.We have also found interesting examples of repetition of anaphora and anadiplosis; repetition of identical words or the words made up of the same stems. Special attention was paid to the repetition of phrases and word combinations; examples of repetition of several lexical units, words or phrases at the same time was significant.Based on the research, it can be clearly stated that using the repetition in short stories, as one of the possibilities of connecting and forming the logical unity of text components, is also uniquely explicit (visible) but not implicit (invisible);Some linguists consider it as a strong form while others contradict this idea. At this point, we refrain from making a final appraisal, though, apparently, it seems like a pretty strong unit.

The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

The Repetition of ‮אֶעֱנֶה‬‎ in MT Hosea 2:23

Abstract The verb ‮אֶעֱנֶה‬‎ appears twice in MT Hos 2:23 construed with the same object, ‮הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם‬‎, while LXX does not reflect the first of its appearances. Many scholars regard the repetition in MT as a rhetorical device. The author, however, points to a distinction between this supposed rhetorical repetition and the examples of repetition adduced by scholars who make the case for Hos 2:23 being an intentional device. Furthermore, the study provides data demonstrating that the repetition in Hos 2:23 functions in a manner that is decidedly different than all other cases in the Bible in which the other Hebrew expressions surrounding the purported repetition appear. This study also offers two possible scenarios in which the verb may have been duplicated erroneously.

Letter from the Guest Editor

Letter from the Guest Editor

Convention, Repetition and Abjection: The Way of the Gothic

This paper employs Deleuze and Kristeva in an examination of certain Gothic conventions. It argues that repetition of these conventions- which endows Gothicism with formulaic coherence and consistence but might also lead to predictability and stylistic deadlock-is leavened by a novelty that Deleuze would categorize as literary “gift.” This particular kind of “gift” reveals itself in the fiction of successive Gothic writers on the level of plot and is applied to the repetition of the genre’s motifs and conventions. One convention, the supernatural, is affiliated with “the Other” in the early stages of the genre’s development and can often be seen as mapping the same territories as Kristeva’s abject. The lens of Kristeva’s abjection allows us to internalize the Other and thus to reexamine the Gothic self; it also allows us to broaden our understanding of the Gothic as a commentary on the political, the social and the domestic. Two early Gothic texts, Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and Lewis’s The Monk, are presented as examples of repetition of the Gothic convention of the abjected supernatural, Walpole’s story revealing horrors of a political nature, Lewis’s reshaping Gothic’s dynamics into a commentary on the social and the domestic.

Reflected Spaces: “Heterotopia” and the Creation of Space in William Gibson’s Neuromancer

Michel Foucault's concept of is finding a welcome place among twenty-first century theoreticians who are concentrating increasingly on space in relation to social, cultural, and political arrangements. The widespread use of Foucault's in literary and cultural theory stems from the popularity of a lecture titled Des Espace Autres, 1 given in 1967 but not published until 1984, only a few months after his death and the same year, coincidentally, as the publication of science fiction writer William Gibson's novel Neuromancer. This essay will argue for a renewed look at heterotopia, both in and outside of Foucault's writing, as a contextually and theoretically situated concept, using Gibson's Neuromancer as a literary backdrop for the theoretical mise-en-scene.2 As a potent theoretical tool (Foucault sometimes referred to his texts as providing toolkits), can be deployed more productively by resituating it into Foucault's broader and continually evolving theories on space (especially in relation to social technologies/regimes of knowledge). Such a resituation is important for critical discourse today-not only in literature, but also in conversations ranging from political philosophy to digital humanities-because the theoretical investigation of space has re-entered the dialogue in force. That such theorization is receiving renewed importance can be seen in contemporary analyses of a wide array of (from all eras)-for example, the city, the prison camp, the brothel, the sex club, the restaurant, the department store, the resort, etc.-as well as in concerns over the new digital or virtual spaces constantly emerging and bringing with them political, social, and legal questions. Many of these (both of the past and present, real and virtual) may too easily be construed as special, deviant, and free, and be idealized under what I will argue is the ossified version of heterotopia as any other or heterogeneous disconnected space. Yet the designated in Foucault's work is not simply an other, deviant space, but, as a real or virtual instantiation of a utopian ideal, heterotopic space carries the potential for abuse, for the violent rounding of real comers that refuse to conform to the ideal, or merely for ignoring the parts of the instantiation that do not fit. More importantly, these spaces, and the violence that accompanies them, function to maintain the network of places that constitute normal space.Neuromancer is an excellent vehicle for elaborating the complexity of Foucault's heterotopology, as well as the difficulties that can emerge from attempts to deploy it theoretically. Not only was it composed and published in the same theoretical milieu (i.e. with similar concerns about space and life in a late capitalist world) in which Different Spaces came to prominence, but it also reflects many of the spatial arrangements that Foucault posits. Both the text itself and the critical writing around the text can serve as examples for describing Foucault's theories and the ways in which critics deploy such theories by applying them to relevant or popular cultural productions. The body of literature surrounding cyberpunk and Neuromancer in particular3 offers a unique example of repetition and fashion in theoretical terminology. As the bulk of this criticism dates from the late eighties and early nineties, the conversation often comes back to the idea of networked space, global connectivity, and the dominance of so-called postmodern themes in science fiction.4Literature, in this case Neuromancer, serves as an object-anchor, something that can be returned to, speculated upon, something that gives shape to the theory at hand. It is, strictly speaking, unnecessary in the theoretical domain to bring such an object to the fore. However, for my purposes here, it is beneficial to have an objective counterpoint to the abstraction of theorizing spaces-in-relation. …

Scraping the Barrel with a Shower of Social Misfits: Everyday Creativity in Text Messaging

Scholars generally accept that spelling variation in texting is a creative practice. This article shows that texters can also be creative in other ways. Examples of repetition, idiom manipulation, wordplay, and punning are drawn from a corpus of almost 11,000 text messages. These include: ‘They can try! They can get lost, in fact!’ and ‘see ya not on the dot’, as well as the mixed idioms cited in the title of the article. The article explores the extent to which these creative practices reflect the creativity identified in spoken and online interaction and it finds that, despite the speech-like nature of creative practices across the corpus, some texted creativity differs in interesting ways from other contexts. The article shows how creative practices emerge from a particular configuration of technology- and user-related features to play a significant evaluative role in texting, as well as providing cohesion across texts. The study suggests that research into the implications of texting for literacy should be extended to take into account these forms of creativity.

Beyond Texas Through Time: Breaking Away from Past Interpretations (review)

Reviewed by: Beyond Texas Through Time: Breaking Away from Past Interpretations Gregg Cantrell Beyond Texas Through Time: Breaking Away from Past Interpretations. Edited by Walter L. Buenger and Arnoldo De León. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011. Pp. 318. Tables, notes, index. ISBN 9781603442350, $24.95 paper.) For many of us who teach, write, and think about Texas history, no single book has proven more valuable than a volume of essays edited twenty years ago by Walter L. Buenger and the late Robert A. Calvert. Texas Through Time: Evolving Interpretations (1991) featured a cast of that generation’s best Texas historians writing critical, sometimes damning, essays on the past and present state of Texas historiography. With a balanced mix of chronological and topical chapters, tied together by a provocative introductory essay by the editors, it painted a picture of Texas historical writing that had been characterized by a century of hero-worship, mythologizing, and cultural chauvinism. When its essays were being written in the late 1980s, the “new social history” was no longer very new in the American historical profession, but it was not yet the mainstream in the Lone Star State. Texas social historians, many of whom contributed essays to the volume, were still fighting an uphill battle to debunk old myths and to include the stories of women, Indians, Tejanos, African Americans, and ordinary Texans in the grand narrative of the state’s history. As a sequel to that book, Beyond Texas Through Time takes stock of the field two decades later. With only six chapters compared to the original’s twelve, the strictly chronological chapters have been dropped, leaving Buenger to write the lead essay on the overall current state of Texas historiography, Pekka Hämäläinen on Indian history, Keith J. Volanto on political, economic, and military history, Michael Phillips on race and gender, Carlos Kevin Blanton on diversity and “Historical Imagination,” and Nancy Beck Young on modernization. All are valuable contributions. Historians who concentrate on a specific era will wish that the chronological chapters had remained, but perhaps the new organizational scheme reflects the disintegration of tradition that characterizes the profession as a whole in recent years. The result is more overlap and repetition than one might hope for. For example, a casual browser might wonder how Michael Phillips’s essay with the subtitle “Race, Gender, and the ‘Other Texans’” will differ from Carlos Blanton’s on “The Diversity of People, Place, and Historical Imagination.” And indeed, these two essays do cover much of the same ground (which occasionally brings them into interesting conflict with one another). To cite specific examples of repetition, Neil Foley’s The White Scourge is discussed in five of the six essays; individual books by Juliana Barr, Pekka Hämäläinen, and Judith MacArthur all appear in four different [End Page 405] chapters. Of course, any editor who has ever commissioned a volume of essays knows the difficulty of predicting, much less directing, what any group of independent-minded scholars will write, and I would be surprised if the final product bears a very close resemblance to the outline the editors drew up when the project was conceived. What unites the six essays is their conclusion that much has changed since 1991. Buenger’s nuanced introductory chapter deftly summarizes those changes: First, the old triumphalist Texas history is still alive and well, albeit stripped of its most blatantly racist and sexist trappings. Second, social history has gone mainstream and exists in fairly robust quality and quantity alongside the older forms. But the most striking development is the extent to which a “third truth” (Buenger’s term) has joined the first two—the rise of the what might be called the “new cultural studies,” a set of approaches influenced by the broader currents of recent postmodernist thought. All of the essays cite examples of how the best new works on Texas place the state in a broader regional, national, or even international context; how our understanding of Texas has benefited from comparisons with other places; and how it has become more theoretical and interdisciplinary. Above all, these essays demonstrate how we have moved away from chauvinistic...

The Theological Function of Repetition in the Old Testament Canon

AbstractIt is notable feature of the Old Testament that several accounts or passages occur more than once, often in similar but not identical fashion. Such repetitions have o en been a key feature leading to source-critical analyses of Old Testament texts, but several different types of examples of repetition are discussed in order to demonstrate that there is a bigger question to hand: why should the Old Testament canon be so marked by repetitions of material large and small? It is suggested that such repetition is not an unforeseen by-product of the editing and collation process, nor is it simply an editorial desire to include all tried and tested texts regardless of overlap. Rather repetition serves a theological function, which comes into focus when we consider Old Testament texts as a form of testimony. In the light of Deuteronomy 19:15 and questions of trustworthy testimony, it is suggested that textual repetition in the Old Testament serves to foreground a claim to the nature of these texts as reliable witness to the God of Israel. Some hermeneutical implications are explored briefly.

Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson: Dwelling in Possibilities (review)

Reviewed by: Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson: Dwelling in Possibilities Sally Bushell (bio) Heginbotham, Eleanor Elson . Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson: Dwelling in Possibilities. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003. $47.95 The primary aim of Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson: Dwelling in Possibilities is to assert the value of reading Dickinson's poetry contextually and of "reading the poems in their places" (104) by means of the fascicle groupings. For Heginbotham, such groupings are "quite simply the most important clue she provided for reading the poems within them. They are Dickinson's own context" (viii). Thus, the study privileges a comparative, cross-poem and cross-fascicle interpretative structure and in particular organises itself around the examples of "repeated" poems occurring in more than one place. Such an approach allows the critic to dwell on "the effects of the pressures of the surrounding work—the contiguous poems, the shape of a book, [. . .] the peculiar tone of each book" (xi-xii). Heginbotham tells us that there are eleven examples of repetition across the forty fascicles. She chooses not to look at all of these, but at a "representative sample" (xii) of four pairs in Fascicles 1 and 40, 6 and 10, 14 and 3, 21 and 8. However, there are potential contradictions in such a position. Firstly, we might question the assertion of the value of a contextual reading which is followed by only a partial exploration of a certain kind of meaning (although Heginbotham does cover quite a lot of ground in the examples chosen). Secondly, there seems to be some ambiguity in the way she positions herself within the larger fascicle debate. On the one hand she stresses that she wishes to avoid an overly intentionist reading of the fascicles, on the other she centers herself upon the "intentional artistry she [Dickinson] used to compile these books" (ix). One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of the study is the way in which it resists falling into the more speculative authorial [End Page 113] approach, but it also resists pushing toward a clear conclusion of its own and thus tends to suffer from a rather unfocussed critical ambition: "what I want to share in this study is not any single interpretation but rather my own excitement at the glimpse the fascicle groupings provide in the playful and inventive mind of Emily Dickinson" (ix). The book is organised around the pairs of poems. Chapter 1 addresses two opposing poems in Fascicle 21; Chapter 2 looks at the poems around this pairing in Fascicle 21; Chapter 3 looks at a duplicate within Fascicle 8 and between 8 and 21 and then reads across poems; Chapter 4 gives a contextual reading of two versions of a poem in Fascicles 6 and 10. In Chapter 5 Heginbotham turns her attention to other critics who have adopted a contextual reading and to the issue of intentionality in such readings. Here she places emphasis on a need to "discover what she was doing more than why she was doing it" (107), that is to avoid an (unrecoverable) intentionist approach in favor of analysis of materials. Chapter 6 looks at two further pairs of fascicles (1/14, 3/40) before the conclusions of Chapter 7. At a localised level Heginbotham works hard to illustrate "the way two poems speak to each other across the page" (5) and is able to illustrate convincingly the value of contextualised meaning for interpreting the poems. She also provides a clear context for the fascicle debate itself, although her own position is again frustratingly undefined. She states: "I come to this study with neither a conviction that the fascicles tell a unified story of passion [. . .] nor a willingness to attribute to Dickinson a prophetic sympathy for postmodern critical theory" (12-13). Instead, her position is "primarily the result of simply looking long enough at the fascicles" (13). This seems to me disingenuous, not least because Heginbotham in fact has quite a rigid conceptualisation of the fascicles as a "self-publication project" (7) which she asserts more or less uncritically throughout. This becomes problematic later on when she describes Dickinson as "the tricky editor of Fascicle 8" (59) or calls the...

Book Review

Bowling , A. Research Methods in Health: Investigating Health and Health Services . Buckingham : Open University Press , 2002 , £22.50 , xiv + 486pp . ISBN 0335206433 (pbk) . I welcomed the opportunity to read this book as I was aware of, but not familiar with, the first edition. The book has the laudable and ambitious aim of providing a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of health services research for ‘students and researchers of health and health services, health professionals and policy-makers’. It begins with a section on the scope of health services research before dealing briefly with the philosophy and principles of research. The remaining three sections cover the practicalities of quantitative and qualitative methods. The first two sections were disappointing. A challenge faced by health professionals and policy makers who are interested in research, and one alluded to by the author in the preface, is coming to grips with sociological and psychological jargon. Sections 1 and 2 do little to this address this. Throughout, there are numerous examples of repetition and lack of clarity. For example, when discussing Parsons’ Sick Role, the author states: ‘The sick role is functional for society because the individual is permitted to break the rules, but only if the obligations (which are functional for society) are met’. A similar lack of clarity is seen in relation to the use of the word ‘paradigm’. It is adequately defined on page 119 but is used elsewhere to indicate a type of psychological study and in the glossary to mean ‘a set of ideas (hypotheses) about the phenomenon under enquiry’. In addition, new terms, such as ‘epidemiological transition model’, are introduced without explanation and there are several unsubstantiated and unlikely statements, such as: ‘those on lower incomes … have further to travel to health care facilities’. A further weakness of the earlier sections is the uncritical inclusion of dated literature, like that relating to gender and illness behaviour. Although this provides the reader with a broad historical perspective of the theories and concepts discussed, it would be more useful for the target audience if the literature had been reviewed more critically in order to highlight the important contemporary debates, especially in a second edition. Of the six chapters in the first section, only Chapter 4, on health economics, stood out as being clear, concise and informative. Unfortunately, lack of clarity also pervaded the last section of the book. For example, statements such as, ‘Qualitative methods are less obtrusive than quantitative methods’ are made without explanation. This statement would obviously not be true if comparing a short postal questionnaire with an in-depth interview. In addition, some statements suggest a more fundamental lack of understanding of qualitative research. For instance, it is implied that relatively small samples are used in qualitative studies because of the prohibitive cost of collecting and analysing qualitative data, and that small samples lead to ‘questionable representativeness of the data’. The author then suggests that ‘The [qualitative] sample . . . could, in theory, be randomly selected to satisfy generalisability, although given the small numbers usually required, the chances of the sample being representative of a wider population of interest are usually slim’. Throughout the book, reading was made difficult and irritating by frequent graphical errors (e.g. Friedson instead of Freidson), by grammatical errors (e.g. ethical committees instead of ethics committees) and by sloppy writing (e.g.‘men have higher mortality patterns [it should be “rates”] than women’). Of the chapters in sections 3 and 4, some of the later, more practical ones provided straightforward advice on how to go about specific aspects of research. The chapters dealing with questionnaire design and preparation of quantitative data for coding and analysis were particularly clear and comprehensive. There is no question that an all-encompassing text on health services research is desirable in principle. After reading this book, however, I question whether such a text can be successfully written by a single author. The value of the book is that it indicates the diversity and scope of health services research. However, by aiming at comprehensive coverage, it fails adequately to explain many of the important concepts relating to the theory and practice of research. I would certainly recommend that students and health professionals refer to the chapters on practical aspects of quantitative research. However, until a clearer and more accurate text is written, I will continue to use and recommend the many excellent specialist books and articles on specific aspects of health services research.

Victim Selection in the Jeffrey Dahmer Slayings: An Example of Repetition in the Paraphilias?

Abstract It has been suggested that Jeffrey Dahmer, who was convicted for the serial murders of 15 people, carefully selected most of his victims on the basis of their external phenotype. Although the sample size is small, both univariate and multivariate methods support the possibility that similarity in craniofacial architecture strongly influenced his choice of victims. Because necrophilia played a key role during expert testimony at his trial, and because Dahmer retained most of the skulls and one postcranial skeleton, the results suggest that his actions represent an example of repetition in the paraphilias.

Functional Redundancy in the Acts of the Apostles: a Case Study

The threefold story of Paul's conversion/call in Acts 9, 22 and 26 constitutes a most obvious example of repetition in the NT. Earlier studies have explored these passages to reconcile differences in the accounts, to identify different sources, or to compare them with Paul's own letters. The thesis of this article is that the repetitions found in these three passages are part of a narrative strategy which can be termed 'functional redundancy'. Using the techniques of redundancy found in the OT (as described by Meir Sternberg in The Poetics of Biblical Narrative), the article applies to Acts 9, 22 and 26 the five forms of repetition and variation which function in narrative redundancy: expansion, truncation, change of order, grammatical transformation and substitution. The analysis then demonstrates how seemingly insignificant differences in the three accounts are actually essential to their meaning. With each passage, the immediacy of the christophany increases as the role of Ananias and Paul's com panions decreases, contributing to the portrait of Paul in Acts as an eloquent witness to the faith.

Biostratigraphic Highlights of some Deep Wells from Central-Southern San Joaquin Valley, California: ABSTRACT

The wells to be discussed are the Kings County Von Glahn No. 1, Sec. 4, T. 23 N., R. 22 E.; Harry H. Magee Amalgamated Happold No. 2, Sec. 15, T. 25 S., R. 24 E.; Continental KCL A-2, Sec. 8, T. 27 S., R. 24 E.; Western Gulf KCL B-45, Sec. 22, T. 29 S., R. 27 E.; Humble KCL D-2, Sec. 15, T. 30 S., R. 27 E.; Ohio KCL A-72-4, Sec. 4, T. 32 S., R. 26 E.; and Humble KCL B-11, Sec. 35, T. 11 N., R. 21 W. The above wells include more than 21,000 ft. of Pleistocene to Upper Cretaceous (?) sediments that were deposited in non-marine to deep-water marine environments. Thickening and thinning of beds, as well as changes in the biofacies and lithofacies, take place quite rapidly between well locations. In the Ohio KCL A-72-4 and many adjacent wells, deep water pseudo-Saucesian foraminiferal species often recur within middle and late lower Miocene intervals. The Humble KCL B-11 and many other wells on or near the major fault systems contain good examples of repetition of faunas resulting from overturned beds and faulting. End_of_Article - Last_Page 1079------------