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2. Stress (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence. That emphasis is typically caused by such properties as increased ...

3. Tautology (language) - Wikipedia

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   Tautology (language) In literary criticism and rhetoric, a tautology is a statement that repeats an idea, using near-synonymous morphemes, words or phrases, effectively "saying the same thing twice". [ 1][ 2] Tautology and pleonasm are not consistently differentiated in literature. [ 3] Like pleonasm, tautology is often considered a fault of ...

4. Parallel syntax - Wikipedia

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   The repeated sentences or clauses provide emphasis to a central theme or idea the author is trying to convey. Parallelism is the mark of a mature language speaker. In language, syntax is the structure of a sentence, thus parallel syntax can also be called parallel sentence structure. This rhetorical tool improves the flow of a sentence as it ...

5. Epizeuxis - Wikipedia

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   Epizeuxis. In rhetoric, epizeuxis, also known as palilogia, is the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, typically within the same sentence, for vehemence or emphasis. [ 1][ 2] A closely related rhetorical device is diacope, which involves word repetition that is broken up by a single intervening word, or a small number of ...

6. Empiricism - Wikipedia

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   Logical empiricism (also logical positivism or neopositivism) was an early 20th-century attempt to synthesize the essential ideas of British empiricism (e.g. a strong emphasis on sensory experience as the basis for knowledge) with certain insights from mathematical logic that had been developed by Gottlob Frege and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

7. Syntactic Structures - Wikipedia

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   In Syntactic Structures, Chomsky tries to construct a "formalized theory of linguistic structure". He places emphasis on "rigorous formulations" and "precisely constructed models". [ 59] In the first chapter of the book, he gives a definition of human language syntax. He then talks about the goals of syntactic study.

8. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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   Linguistics. Literal and figurative language is a distinction that exists in all natural languages; it is studied within certain areas of language analysis, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics. Literal language uses words exactly according to their direct, straightforward, or conventionally accepted meanings: their denotation.

9. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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   Emphasis (typography) Example of black letter emphasis using the technique of changing fonts. In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. [ 1] It is the equivalent of prosody stress in speech.