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Lexical reduplication is a stylistic device in language, where a word or part of it is repeated fully or partially to enhance meaning, add emotionality, or create a new shade of meaning.
In everyday life, we often don't even notice this. For example:
- barely-barely (very weak, little),
- quiet-quiet (extremely quiet),
- many-many (very many).
In artistic texts, reduplication helps the author make the language more expressive:
- far-far,
- blue-blue,
- yellow-yellow.
Thus, reduplication not only beautifies the language but also performs an important semantic function: emphasizes the intensity, repetitiveness, or duration of actions or qualities
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