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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