Social action of syntactic reduplication

• Published in: Journal of pragmatics Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 800 - 824
• Main Author: Keevallik, Leelo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.03.2010; Elsevier
• Subjects: Action sequences; Descriptive studies and applied theories; Estniska språket; Estonian; Estonian language; Finno-Ugric languages; Finsk-ugriska språk; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; Interactional linguistics; Language Patterns; Languages and linguistics; Linguistic subjects; Linguistics; Lingvistik; Lingvistikämnen; Prosody; Reduplication; Repetition; Semantics and pragmatics; Semantics Discourse Relationship; Sentence Structure; Språkvetenskap; Syntactic reduplication; Syntax Discourse Relationship; Action sequences; Syntactic reduplication; Prosody; Interactional linguistics; Repetition; Estonian; Action; Reduplication; Pragmatics

Reduplication has been shown to carry the semantic meaning of increased intensity, duration or emphasis. This study demonstrates that syntactic reduplication in Estonian is regularly used in responsive positions in action sequences. Instances of syntactic reduplication constitute specific social pra...