reduplication

Examples

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• The Iconic Approach based on **32;121;TOOLONG (or something similar still to be fully developed in upcoming years) seems to lead to a reduplication of questionable benefit to the individual.

  Academic text (2017)

• The BX-C genes, for example, are arrayed in a line on the third chromosome (and may all have arisen by duplication and reduplication of a single ancestral gene).

  Academic text (1992)

• Baudrillard writes that simulation "is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody.

  Academic text (2013)

• What is contemporary here is a developing self-reflection on the part of researchers and respondents that what we are all engaged in is not the reduplication of the cultural other, but the negotiation of cultural understanding between responsible members of alternative worlds whose concerns overlap to a degree that evokes insights and mutual learning.

  Academic text (1996)

• The game terms are characterized by predictably (cf. Goldman 1986:196) high levels of reduplication (1-8), often paralleling their English language counterparts.

  Academic text (1995)

• In single-plot narratives, repetition can assume the form of reduplication of events or repetition with variations, such as similarity, contrast, addition, and intensification.

  Academic text (2004)

• The two men hold the figure of Christ aloft, presenting him for the viewer's veneration at the same time that the Virgin, who collapses below him, "presents" Christ through her repetition of his posture, making his form conspicuous through her reduplication of it.

  Academic text (2006)

• The word reduplication in the term "goody-goody" emphasizes the quality of being overly nice.

• In language studies, reduplication is often exemplified by phrases such as "choo-choo" to show how sounds can be repeated.

• The word reduplication in "boo-boo" illustrates how sounds are repeated to create a playful term for a minor injury.

Synonyms

R

repetition

vsreduplication

44 2.0

Doing or saying something again

is the linguistic process that copies whole words or word parts

R

reiteration

vsreduplication

3 4.9

An action of saying or doing the same thing again to make it clear and show its importance

is the specific language copying of whole words or word parts rather than emphasis

R

repeating

vsreduplication

1 1.8

Doing something again to practice or make it clear

is focused on language, copying whole words or parts of words

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology