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What is
the definition of foregrounding?
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How
were the main principles of foregrounding formed?
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What
are general functions of foregrounding types?
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What
are the main types of foregrounding?
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What is
convergence? Name the stylistic devices available in the first
example and explain their interaction?
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Does
convergence presuppose a certain stylistic redundancy or scarcity?
Illustrate it using other examples from the lecture.
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What is
redundancy of stylistic devices?
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What
does coupling facilitate?
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Is the
similarity of positions a syntagmatic or paradigmatic category?
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Prove
that parallelism is an example of foregrounding using the examples
from the lecture.
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What
is the most characteristic type of coupling?
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How may
phonetic similarity in coupling be implemented?
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What
is rhyme, according to Zhirmunsky?
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What
type of foregrounding draws on predictability or violation of
predictability of certain textual elements?
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What
do you expect in the first example of defeated expectancy and what
really happens?
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What do
you expect in the second example of defeated expectancy and what
really happens?
