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标 题: A.Word.A.Day--battology(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2000年09月25日20:07:10 星期一), 转信
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battology (buh-TOL-uh-jee) noun
Wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.
[From Greek battologia (batt(os) stammerer + -o- + -logia -logy).]
"The different forms and uses of repetition range from amplification to
battology. The rhetorical features noted in this paper constitute some
of the elements that infuse a powerful oratorical force in classical
Kiswahili poetry, and repetition is, in addition, an important element
in the oral-written interface."
Kyallo Wadi Wamitila, A Rhetorical Study of Kiswahili Classical Poetry,
Research in African Literatures, Apr 15, 1999.
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