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Repetition in Homeric epic: Cognitive and linguistic perspectives

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2016

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Minchin, Elizabeth

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Walter de Gruyter and Co.

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Why are there so many instances - and so many varieties - of repetition in the oral epics that we associate with Homer's name? In this paper I begin with Deborah Tannen's observations on repetition in spontaneous conversational discourse. I then turn to the oral epic tradition that had flourished in early Greece to consider how repetition operates in its two representative poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/170599

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Oral Poetics and Cognitive Science

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10.1515/9783110348538-003

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2037-12-31

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