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Jakobson’s Place in Hasan’s Social Semiotic Stylistics: ‘Pervasive Parallelism as Symbolic Articulation of Theme

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The foremost aim of this chapter is to provide further evidence for my proposal concerning the rightful place of Jakobson’s theory of ‘pervasive parallelism’ (1966, p. 423) within Hasan’s social semiotic stylistics (henceforth SSS) framework. Further substantiation is required to make the case more convincing, if Hasan’s (privately communicated) reservations are to be successfully countered.1

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Miller, D.R. (2016). Jakobson’s Place in Hasan’s Social Semiotic Stylistics: ‘Pervasive Parallelism as Symbolic Articulation of Theme. In: Bowcher, W.L., Liang, J.Y. (eds) Society in Language, Language in Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402868_3

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