Abundance (language studies)

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Abundance ( Latin abundance, abundance) in the field of linguistics is a stylistic term. The corresponding adjective is called abundant .

In the narrower sense, abundance refers to the reproduction of the same thought with the help of formulations with the same meaning or with a similar meaning.

In a broader sense, abundance is understood as the abundance of linguistic forms of expression for a thing or for the same thought.

The term abundance is related to pleonasm and redundancy , which also refer to formulations with the same meaning, sometimes superfluous or dispensable.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Thomsen: Pleonasmus in Plautus and Terentius: selected temporal (and related) terms, Volume 1, Almqvist & Wiksells, 1930, p. 194 (online)

literature

  • Michael Hillen: Studies on Seneca's poetic language: Abundance, Explicative Ablative, Hypallage (=  studies on ancient literature and history . Volume 32 ). De Gruyter, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-11-011798-3 , pp. 3 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).