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In:Pragmatics and Literature
Edited by Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 35] 2019
► pp. 115–137

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Chapter 6
Lexical pragmatics in the context of structural parallelism

Published online: 5 December 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.35.06cai
Article outline
  • 6.1Introduction
  • 6.2Syntactic parallelism
  • 6.3Lexical adjustment
  • 6.4Syntactic parallelism feeds “what is said”
  • 6.5Theoretical implications
  • 6.6Summary
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Notes
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