Recurrence (linguistics)

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In linguistics , especially in text linguistics , the repeated occurrence of the same linguistic forms within a text is called recurrence (from Latin recurrere "to run back, come back, recur") . These are usually the same words or phrases .

Cohesion means in German

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From a text-linguistic point of view, recurrence (in addition to other methods such as pronominalization , substitution and use of reference forms ) is a way of giving a text cohesion , i.e. a syntactic-semantic connection on the text surface .

Recurrence is also a means of creating an internal, text-structuring context ( coherence ) in the text . Recurrent parts of the text do not necessarily have to refer to the same object. In the sentence “This pc is faster than that pc”, the two occurrences of pc do not refer to the same item. So there is no co-reference from the PC .

Recurrence is often used for stylistic or rhetorical reasons. From a rhetorical point of view, this is the stylistic device of repetition , i.e. the resumption or repetition of the same or related linguistic expressions; for example in text passages like “ Martha went to the refrigerator. Martha was hungry. Martha hadn't eaten for a long time. ”The repeated linguistic expression Martha has a co-reference, since the word refers to the same object, the same person.

Partial recurrence

Partial recurrence is understood to mean, on the one hand, those cases in which only part of a word, usually the root of the word , is repeated in a text instead of the same words or whole phrases . This can be found, for example, in the adjectives daily , literally or rock hard . This is a recurrence on the morphological level. With regard to word formation , such cases involve a reduplication .
On the other hand, the repetition of a word in a different word class also counts as partial recurrence, e.g. the noun Glück together with the derived adjective happy and / or the derived verb luck . This can also occur within a linguistic phrase such as “fight a battle” (the noun is derived from the verb).

Accordingly, partial recurrences through the repetition of the same or similar word material can also fulfill a stylistic-rhetorical function and, for example, have an intensifying effect.

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