Same tune, different songs : banality, critical inventions, and collocations in Lord of the Flies criticisms
What place does formulaic language have in literary criticism? On the one hand, as Douglas Biber (2006) suggests, repeating word combinations “are important for the production and comprehension of texts in the university” (p. 135). But on the other hand the repetition of stock or conventional phra...
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University of British Columbia
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/39939 |