Zum Gebrauch rhetorischer Figuren der Hinzufügung in deutschen Grabinschriften

• Authors: Józef Jarosz

Title variants

EN

Use of rhetorical figures of repetitionin German funerary inscriptions

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The semantic structure of funerary inscriptions has a dual character. The onomastic-genealogial part is characterized by stereotypical forms of expression and performs a referential function. Its opposi­tion, the emotive text-component, eulogy, is dominated by the function of self-expression, with no­ticeable linguistic elegance. The present article examines the use of rhetorical figures of repetition in the German funerary inscriptions dating from the period 1790–2010 and analyzes closely their poet-ic function. The study shows that the analyzed texts contain a lot of different rhetorical figures of repetition, which confirms the poetic function of the investigated genre.

Keywords

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rhetorical figures of repetition; funerary inscriptions; poetic function

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Germanica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 137
• Pages: 77 - 93

Contributors

author

Józef Jarosz

• Wrocław