1.	Reduplicative compounds

1.1.	Where the reduplicative compounds appear

1.2.	Classification of the reduplications

1.3.

Glossary

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Reduplicative compounds appear in various spheres of life. Usually the style of the written text is very informal. They can be found in lyrics of songs written by famous artists. As the majority of the reduplicative compounds belong to the rhyming category, they are very suitable for singing. Another style where the rhyming is appreciated are poems for little children. They are funny and help in memorizing the poem. Another purpose of the usage of reduplication is to draw attention. They can be seen in advertisements, on posters, in titles of movies and headlines in newspapers. The last item is not an informal kind of writing but for the newspapers it is sometimes profitable to use informal speech devices in favour of gaining more readers. I spent lots of time browsing on the Internet and when I encountered some reduplicative compounds, it was for example in the articles advising you how to communicate correctly or how to prepare various dishes. They are to be found on the Internet discussions and on the film websites. I noticed that names of some bars are based on reduplications. What seemed curious to me was that some cosmetic products have their names based on reduplicative compounds. For instance a tint of a lipstick was called Razzle-Dazzle and some customers seem to be sensitive to these word plays and the names attract their attention.
I would like to point out some reduplicative compounds that seemed interesting to me. For example the interesting writing of “hurry, schmurry”. The second part resembles rather a German word than an English one but I have found it in an English conversation. It is a special type of interjection. I found out that one should be careful about using some reduplications. For instance the phrase “nitty gritty” is highly contentious and was banned by the British police because it has its origin in the slavery era. One theory says that that “nitty gritty” refers to the debris left in the bottom of the slave ships at the end of the voyage. Some of the reduplications are very new and little known, like shnoogly-woogly. The meaning of this word was also unknown to the author of the text, where I found it. Some words are not originally English but they were imported to the English language without any changes. One of them is “cha-cha-cha” which came to English from Spanish. It can be also regarded as a reduplicative compound, in this case maybe triple compound. I was aware that repeating of the words in the compound could be for gradation purposes but I found none of these. Another interesting compound that I encountered was “tic-tac-toe“, which is well-known game and could be regarded as both ablaut combination and rhyming reduplication."

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