[Ads-l] "Marijuana marijuana" -- name for this device?

[Laurence Horn]

Hi Bonnie, 

I call it lexical cloning, although others have called it contrastive focus reduplication. I’ll send you a paper of mine offline on the topic with lots of examples and references to other work.

Larry

> On Aug 28, 2021, at 3:31 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake <b.taylorblake at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> IANAL*, sorry, and I have an amateur's question.
> 
> Here's the text of a tweet that I saw this morning.
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> Tell me you're Fijian without telling me you're Fijian.
> 
> When you repeat the same word twice for others to understand, and they
> instantly get it.
> 
> "You talking about marijuana, marijuana or the industrial marijuana?"
> 
> Reply: "marijuana, marijuana"
> 
> (https://twitter.com/IsireliVulaca/status/1431545469050621953?s=20)
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> ("Industrial marijuana" is cannabis grown for industrial use, like hemp.)
> 
> Now, I know this isn't exclusive to Fiji: I've heard speakers of American
> English use "Indian Indian" to identify someone from the Indian
> subcontinent as opposed to a Native American. (That cringingly bad example
> is the only one that comes to mind at the moment.)
> 
> Is there a name for this?
> 
> -- Bonnie
> 
> * = I am not a linguist
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