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Magies de la répétition

Magies de la répétition

Preface by Claude Hagège

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Rehearsal magic

Heartbeats, alternation of night and day and seasons, monday mornings… Our lives are made of repetitions. What about repetition in language? Long neglected, verbal repetition is today treated in numerous studies which tackle its specific aspects: approaches based on figures, authors, texts or types of speech. For the first time, a unitary definition of repetition is presented. What changes when sounds, words, phrases are said multiple times? How does speech serve anything other than the transmission of information? Why is repetition used in lyrical, political, religious and magical practices? These questions and many more are treated and clarified by the author, who has been thinking and writing for years about verbal repetition. Written from a broadly interdisciplinary perspective, this book is aimed not only at linguists but at all those who are interested in the power of words.