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Repetition is a common stylistic device that can play a variety of macrostructural roles: from that of aesthetically pleasing textual ornament, to that of emphatic sequence attracting the readers’ or listeners’ attention. This talk addresses those instances of repetition and recurrence in the contemporary drama that helps to establish the power position of the speaker who uses their superiority to intimidate, humiliate or otherwise degrade the addressee – usually in the role of a victim. The tra ...

Uralic Information Centre talk

The Húnaland Meeting

Conference on Lexicology and Lexicography

The aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity to introduce high quality PhD research in applied linguistics, to discuss questions and issues occurring in the various areas and to help young researchers make contact with each other and other representatives of the field.

In this talk, I first argue for a three-layered verbal structure consisting of the head sequences of v-V-R, where R is a predicate root, v and V are functional projections fixing the transitivity and the category of R, respectivel ...