adnan j.r. al-jubouri
"the different types of formal devices that Arabic employs for expressing repetition and achieving rhetorical effect."
"Repetition in Arabic discourse...is realized at several levels...the morphological level, the word level, and the 'chunk' level."
"k-t-b has to do with writing"
"Notice that the repetition of a morphological pattern creates repetition on the phonological level if said aloud, which intensifies the effect of repetition."
"English discourse rules, codified in rhetoric textbooks under 'variety in word choice', encourage writers to avoid repetition of this sort. The converse is true in Arabic."
"They occur in English in a number of frozen, or semi-frozen idiomatic expressions, particularly in legal English where they are known as 'doublets'.
"The consttuents in the word strings of this group are antonyms or near-antonyms. This is an old rhetorical device in Arabic and has been used for centuries in poetry as well as in prose."
"When reiterated through an argument they tend to create an immediate emotional impact."
"Parallelism is a rhetorical as well as text-building device."
"The tendency towards forceful assertion also explains what, in the eye of a Western recipient, appears to be a florid and verbose style of argumentative discourse. Brevity will simply fail to convey the required effect."
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