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	Anacoluthon
		An anacoluthon is a rhetorical device that can be loosely defined as a change of syntax within a sentence.
		Anacoluthon is often used in stream of consciousness writing, such as that of James Joyce, because it is characteristic of informal human thought.
		The word 'anacoluthon' comes from the Greek 'anakolouthon' which translates to "inconsistency in logic".
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/an/Anacoluthon.html (118 words)

	Anacoluthon
		Figures, like Anacoluthon make speech more effective, they beautify and emphasize it in Rhetoric which is the art of speaking and writing effectively.
		Figures of speech such as Anacoluthon use word association to convey emotion and mood often in a non-literal sense.
		Figures of speech such as Anacoluthon adds adornment, beautifies, colors, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exaggeration, exclamation, flourish, floweriness, irony, lushness and luxuriance to the English language.
	www.examples-help.org.uk /anacoluthon.htm (282 words)

	The Finger of God - Figure Anacoluthon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This figure is so-called, because the construction with which a proposition begins is abandoned; and, either for the sake of perspicuity, emphasis, or elegance, the sentence proceeds in a manner, different from that in which it set out.
		Human writings of deep thought or feeling or argument frequently have the figure Anacoluthon, which in these cases is mere irregularity attributable to inadvertence, arising from the negligence or carelessness of the writer.
		But, in the case of the Scriptures, where the Holy Spirit is the Author, and all is perfect, the figure not only imparts grace, but strength and force to the language, and is intended to catch and fix the attention of the reader.
	www.biblebob.net /Figures/Anacoluthon.htm (1611 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Strictly speaking, an anacoluthon is a rhetorical construction where the logical construction of a sentence is broken or discontinued.
		In a broader sense, an anacoluthon is a rhetorical practice where a link is established between ideas or facts that have nothing to do with one another.
		The so-called logic used by zeugmas often remains woolly to those who don’t share their ideological posture and because zeugmas refuse to question their ideology, it is mostly useless to hope communicating with them.
	garscontent.com /Editoriaux/editorial_77.htm (212 words)

	Kuncoro++ » life.after.theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The acolyte is the follower and thus is the apparent opposite of anacoluthon.
		Anacoluthon is what fails to follow; it’s what’s non-sequential or literally ‘without following’.
		So I thought with this question about the acolyte and anacoluthon I could take anacoluthon first, seeing as it’s second, and ask whether we could read ‘life.after.theory’ as an anacoluthon.
	kun.co.ro /2004/09/11/life-after-theory (285 words)

	[B-Greek] Gal 2.4: ellipsis or anacoluthon?
		I rather doubt even that the NET >> understood this as an ellipsis; I think rather that they inserted >> phrasing >> to indicate what they think that Paul surely meant--and that seems to >> me >> what the "translator's note" actually means: "No subject and verb are >> expressed in vv.
		This seems similar to what we find only two verses away in 2.6, where we have an opening prepositional phrase, an interjection, then a change to a different syntactic construction.
		Here It seems that Paul got lost in the interjection but recovered with a different syntactic construction, a clear example of anacoluthon.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-greek/2004-November/032152.html (444 words)

	RMMLA: 2005 Coeur d'Alene Convention Program
		For example, I propose to scrutinize the diegetic metaphor, that is, a metaphor that is derived from the narrative context in which it appears (Genette, Figures III 47-48) instead of the pervasive metaphor in its classical form.
		Anacoluthon is another example a trope that is transformed in Butor’s novel.
		Traditionally, anacoluthon “designates any grammatical or syntactical discontinuity in which a construction interrupts another before it is completed” (de Man, note 12, 189).
	rmmla.wsu.edu /conferences/conf05cda/getabstract0e1a.html (310 words)

	[B-Greek] Gal 2.4: ellipsis or anacoluthon?
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		So I don't think it's an ellipsis, which term would seem to imply that this phrasing was DELIBERATELY omitted, rather I think it's an anacoluthon resulting from hasty composition and no proofreading of a dictation that the amanuensis may have had difficulty enough getting down.
		When I look back at some of the messages I've sent to this list, I sometimes wonder how I could have let that go without doing a better job--or any job--of reading what I wrote before hitting the "send" button.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-greek/2004-November/032146.html (264 words)

	anacoluthon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That is, beginning a sentence in a way that implies a certain logical resolution, but concluding it differently than the grammar leads one to expect.
		Anacoluthon can be either a grammatical fault or a stylistic virtue, depending on its use.
		In either case, it is an interruption or a verbal lack of symmetry.
	humanities.byu.edu /rhetoric/Figures/A/~anacoluthon.htm (108 words)

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		He realizes that these vagaries and anacoluthons imply that the narrator totally believes in the reality of the wonders that he tells.
		An anacoluthon is a mid-sentence shift that results in two (or more, we suppose) grammatically incompatible parts, typically used, as AH points out, for rhetorical effect.
		But the Fowlers do go on, with staggering magnanimity, to include examples from "both classes": two from the Daily Telegraph (although both seem to be letters to the editor, which must represent the uneducated), one from the Spectator, and one from a certain E. Lyttelton.
	www.thediscouragingword.com /archives/arc18.shtml (5006 words)

	ColCalEN2110
		I have always enjoyed poetry because of its physicality, yet that same physicality is created in prose through anacoluthon.
		As a result of this reaction, anacoluthon also started me pondering the tempo and rhythm of prose.
		I have begun to notice that whenever I am reading there is a pace, as opposed to a meter, that is controlled by the author.
	colcalen2110.blogspot.com (3691 words)

	Anacoluthon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Noun: discontinuity; disjunction; anacoluthon; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap; (interval); solution of continuity, caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission; alternation; (periodicity); dropping fire.
		"Anacoluthon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anaclouthon, anacoluthan, anakoluthon.
		Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/ANACOLUTHON (338 words)

	Cather Studies Volume 3
		Let me pause for a moment with the substantive anacoluthon, a term that suggests the kind of narrative Cather set out to write in Shadows on the Rock.
		Dictionaries define anacoluthon as an abrupt change within a sentence from one grammatical construction to another, quite inconsistent one, frequently for rhetorical effect.
		More importantly, it allowed her to transform, in the act of acknowledging, the distinction Thoreau found so important, to focus on family, community, and tradition even as she annexed historical examples of individuality that challenge and enrich the narrative.
	www.unl.edu /Cather/scholarship/cs/vol3/gcad.htm (5439 words)

	Microsoft Word - hegr.doc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Anacoluthon is the change from a construction which has been already begun to one of a
		On the other hand, from the Semitic point of view the various kinds of compound sentences are
		not to be regarded as instances of anacoluthon, e.g.
	www.biblecentre.net /ot/ges/gr/hegr407.html (295 words)

	Anacoluthon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		God the great peacock with his angel peacocks
		The word, though not the underlying meaning, has been popularized, due to its use as an imprecation by Captain Haddock in the English translations of The Adventures of Tintin series of books.
		Perhaps because it sounds a bit like a snake, the warning worked; he had no further unwanted visitors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anacoluthon (626 words)

	anantapodoton - anantapodoton (French to English translation glossary) Art/Literary
		[Anapodoton literally means "without the main clause (or apodosis)." However, it is best understood as a figure in which a main clause is suggested by the introduction of a subordinate clause, but that main clause never occurs (this makes anapodoton a kind of anacoluthon, since grammatical expectations are interrupted).
		If the expression trails off, leaving the subordinate clause incomplete, this is sometimes more specifically called anantapodoton.
		'without the main clause (or apodosis).' However, it is best understood as a figure in which a main clause is suggested by the introduction of a subordinate clause, but that main clause never occurs (this makes anapodoton a kind of anacoluthon, since grammatical expectations are interrupted).
	www.proz.com /kudoz/15624 (694 words)

	USCCB - Preface to the New American Bible First Edition of the New Testament
		A compromise is here attempted whereby some measure of the poverty of the evangelists' expression is kept and placed at the service of their message in its richness.
		Similarly, the syntactical shortcomings of Paul, his frequent lapses into anacoluthon, and the like, are rendered as they occur in his epistles rather than "smoothed out." Only thus, the translators suppose, will contemporary readers have some adequate idea of the kind of writing they have before them.
		When the prose of the original flows more smoothly, as in Luke, Acts, and Hebrews, it is reflected in the translation.
	www.usccb.org /nab/prefnew70.htm (951 words)

	The Chronicle: Daily news: 03/26/2002 -- 01
		The ruling reversed a lower-court decision that dismissed the long-running case on grounds that the former student had filed her suit after the end of the two-year window Nebraska allows for negligence suits.
		The student, Rania K. Shlien, maintains that the posted essays -- "Anacoluthon" and "Being There for You" -- contain intimate details of her private life, according to court documents.
		Her suit, filed in September 1998, named as defendants the university and the English professor who posted the material, David J. Hibler.
	chronicle.com /free/2002/03/2002032601t.htm (615 words)

	ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But we do not trust through Moses or through the law; for then we would do the same as yourselves.
		Editors suppose that Justin inserts a long parenthesis here, from “for” to “Egypt.” It is more natural to take this as an anacoluthon.
		Justin was going to say, “But now we trust through Christ,” but feels that such a statement requires preliminary explanation.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/anf01.viii.iv.xi.html (423 words)

	Rhetorical Terminology
		As you can see, not every one has a definition, or even an example; it's a work in progress, go with it.
		If you absolutely can't stand it and you have to know what Anacoluthon is, e-mail me or consult A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms, a less comprehensive but far more explanatory resource than my humble list.
		occurred, while in anacoluthon the break and redirect are so radical and abrupt
	www.cyberpat.com /shakes/rhet.html (957 words)

	SBF Glossary: A/N to AoW
		An ungrammatical change of construction in a sentence.
		The idea of anacoluthon reminds me that they used changes of key very effectively.
		You'd be humming along for eight or ten bars in one key (G seemed like their favorite) and then suddenly a few scattered notes would signal a shift, and the whole mood changed.
	www.plexoft.com /SBF/A08.html (9279 words)

	Linguistic Phenomena/Devices
		The list doesn't include the well-known devices (like synonym or metaphor).
		I've also left out extremely rare or poetic devices (like hypallage) and terms referring to common linguistic errors (like anacoluthon), although the line between device and error is sometimes a blurry one.
		The list does include some interesting linguistic phenomena that account for word formation, etc.
	www.csi.uottawa.ca /~kbarker/ling-devices.html (580 words)

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