Abstracts
Abstract
This is a small-scale, corpus-based study on the effects of lexical repetition, as a cohesive device, on textual coherence. Following Hoey’s work on patterns of lexis (1991), we introduce categories of repetition to consider for ‘automatic’ processing using a concordancer program in order to produce summaries based on clusters of lexical repetition sequences, thus obtaining an outline of a text’s structure. The study’s findings are extended to the analysis of parallel texts: two professional translations of corpus text 1 are examined using the same procedure.
Keywords/Mots-clés:
- lexis,
- repetition,
- intertextuality,
- translation,
- concordancer
Résumé
Basée sur un corpus limité, cette étude examine les effets de la répétition lexicale, comme instrument de cohésion, sur la cohérence textuelle. Suivant le modèle de cohésion lexicale de Hoey (1991), on utilise ses catégories de répétition qui s’adaptent à l’élaboration ‘automatique’ avec un concordancier pour en extraire des sommaires basées sur des groupes de séquences lexicales répétées, et obtenir ainsi la délinéation structurelle du texte. Les résultats sont étendus à l’analyse de textes parallèles: deux traductions professionnelles du texte n° 1 du corpus sont examinées suivant la même procédure.
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