Geminatio
Geminatio (Latin: 'doubling') is a term from rhetoric that denotes the immediate doubling of a word or a group of words. This word figure is usually intended to give emphasis to the speech , as in the example "Never, never will I leave you!"
If words or groups of words are repeated three or more times, one speaks of an epizeuxis .
The Geminatio is classified under the concept of positional figures (more precisely under the word repetitions ). From a grammatical point of view, it is “a primitive formation of the superlative ; it. pian piano ".
Examples
- "The stars are happy to remember you" ( Ludwig Tieck )
- "My father, my father, now he's touching me!" ( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Erlkönig )
There are variants that result from the interposition of non-repeated parts of the sentence, such as:
- "Die, Lysis, die, much better has died" ( Christian Hofmann von Hofmannswaldau : Poor, what good is your loved one )
- "Come, soul come, and learn to look further" (Christian Hofmann von Hofmannswaldau: Die Welt )
- "Swallow, abyss, oh swallow ..." ( Andreas Gryphius : Hell )
literature
- Heinrich Lausberg : Handbook of literary rhetoric. A foundation of literary studies. 3rd ed. With a foreword by Arnold Arens . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05503-7 , p. 312 ff., § 616-618.
- Heinrich F. Plett: Introduction to rhetorical text analysis. 5th edition. Buske, Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-87118-082-3 , p. 33 f.
- Dietmar Till: Geminatio. In: Historical dictionary of rhetoric . Edited by Gert Ueding. Vol. 3: Eup-Hör. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1994, ISBN 3-484-68103-9 , Sp. 1476-1486.
Individual evidence
- ^ Geminatio in Literaturwissenschaft-online ( Memento from March 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ Till: Geminatio, Col. 700.
- ^ Lausberg: Handbook of literary rhetoric, p. 313, § 617.