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Pleonasm in today writings
Mohammad Daneshgar. LIRE 2003; 1 (4) :83-114
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Being devoid of pleonasm is the feature contributing to the consistency and soundness of writing. The rhetoric scholars classify pleonasm in three types of appropriate, moderate and inappropriate ones.
As the artistic, beauty and fluency related aspects are put on the sharp focus in the rhetoric books, naturally the inappropriate pleonasm has not been discussed and sometimes has been defined by pointing to one or two examples from poem. But, its place in the prose has not been discussed. In this article, while quoting the lexical and idiomatic definition of pleonasm from some major resources, its usage framework and scope has been determined. Then attempts are made, based on the scientific and theoretical issues, to present by giving examples from today prose – published or not published- the words, expressions and clause used today – affected by various factors including translation- which are the real samples of inappropriate pleonasm and found increasingly in prose and are not so much paid attention and finally result in disorders, unsoundness and vulgarism of the writing.
As the artistic, beauty and fluency related aspects are put on the sharp focus in the rhetoric books, naturally the inappropriate pleonasm has not been discussed and sometimes has been defined by pointing to one or two examples from poem. But, its place in the prose has not been discussed. In this article, while quoting the lexical and idiomatic definition of pleonasm from some major resources, its usage framework and scope has been determined. Then attempts are made, based on the scientific and theoretical issues, to present by giving examples from today prose – published or not published- the words, expressions and clause used today – affected by various factors including translation- which are the real samples of inappropriate pleonasm and found increasingly in prose and are not so much paid attention and finally result in disorders, unsoundness and vulgarism of the writing.
Keywords: pleonasm, today writing, pleonasm in today prose, contemporary prose, edition and editing text, fluency and soundness of writing.
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Farsi language
Received: 2004/07/10 | Accepted: 2004/09/21 | Published: 2014/09/16
Received: 2004/07/10 | Accepted: 2004/09/21 | Published: 2014/09/16
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