Explorations in semantic parallelism

Judul	:	Explorations in semantic parallelism
Penulis	:	James J. Fox
Penerbit	:	ANU Press The Australian National University Canberra
Bahasa	:	Inggris
Tahun Cetak	:	2014
Halaman	:	435
ISBN	:	9781925021066
Sumber	:	http://www.oapen.org/
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Since 1965, when I frst began to record and attempt to understand the ritual poetry of the Rotenese, the study of semantic parallelism has been a major focus of my research. My chief concern has been with the semantics of canonical parallelism. In my view, the study of parallelism and particularly the study of canonical parallelism is no minor subject but is, in fact, a matter of central theoretical importance for both anthropology and linguistics. To introduce this collection of papers, let me begin by ofering some explanation of the importance I attach to research on this topic.

Parallelism as a focus for research. Parallelism describes the common tendency to resort to the pairing of words and phrases to provide emphasis, authority or signifcance to an expression of ideas. It is a common, frequently used rhetorical device in many forms of elevated speech. It is also a recurrent feature of poetic discourse—what the linguist Roman Jakobson has called the ‘poetic artifce…of recurrent returns’, or, in a similar vein, what the poet Gerald Manley Hopkins referred to as ‘the repeated fgure’ in poetry. Examples of such parallelism are numerous and can be encountered daily. Winston Churchill’s speech to the Commons on 4 June 1940 is a ringing example of the use of parallelism.