This content has been automatically translated from Ukrainian.
Lexical reduplication is a stylistic device in language where a word or part of it is repeated in whole or in part to enhance meaning, give emotionality or create a new shade of meaning.
In our daily lives, we often don't even notice it. For example:
- barely barely (very weak, few),
- quietly, quietly (extremely quiet),
- many, many (very much).
In artistic texts, reduplication helps the author make the language more expressive:
- far, far,
- blue-blue,
- yellow-yellow.
Thus, reduplication not only beautifies language, but also performs an important semantic function: emphasizes the intensity, repeatability or duration of action or signs
This post doesn't have any additions from the author yet.
