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This paper looks at a corpus of British and US poetry, uncovering phraseological units which, through their frequency, are indicators of key con- cepts. Multi-word units (MWUs) have been discussed extensively with reference to corpus-based research, for example by Sinclair (1996) [2004], Biber and Conrad (1999), or, referred to as formulaicity by Wray (2002); O’Keefe et al. (2007), Greaves and Warren (2010) and Pace-Sigge (2015) describe MWUs preferred in different spoken and written genres. So far, however, there has been very little research in how far MWUs appear in the sub-genre of imaginative writing, namely, poetry. A commonly held view is that poetry by definition should not be yielding patterns- it subverts every pattern linguistically speaking that it can. Through focus on the main themes surfacing in multiword units, this research looks at usages found in poetic texts in-depth and compares sets of words found with their occurrence patterns in prose literature.
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Pace-Sigge, M. (2019). Typical Phraseological Units in Poetic Texts. In: Corpas Pastor, G., Mitkov, R. (eds) Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology. EUROPHRAS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11755. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30135-4_24
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