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Publication details [#25771]

Miki, Etsuzo. 1996. Evocation and tautologies. Journal of Pragmatics 25 (5) : 635–648.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

redundancy | referent | rhetoric | shared beliefs | tautology

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper characterizes tautologies as forms of self-identification by means of evocation of shared knowledge, denoting referents opaquely or transparently, and described in ways that maximize linguistic redundancy for rhetorical purposes.