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Ágnes Deli: Meaning with lexical repetition

(Symbol X stands for lexical item, XI - Xn represent specific interpretations, and C means the context.) The formula is meant to also allow for the interpretation of the notion of existential hyponymy: The following extract is an example of a proper noun entering into hyponymic relationship with itself through its repeated form. The interpretation of the referent of the proper noun 'Germany' in ext. [2] below is based on the specific real-life situation, the historical circumstances of the country in the year 1989 before the reunification of West Gennany and East Germany: [2] A: Now, you said [dfe] no country has been successfully divided for very long. Remember # Gennany was, 1 mean unified for over a hundred years or so. B: [DfedMeN] there's there's Germany and there's Germany, [e] there's a still a spiritual Gennany which has which is of course [m] many [e] thousands of years old. The context of this discourse involves not only that of the situation in which it is produced, but also a much wider context, that of the history of Germany, and the interpretation of the situation at the moment of the conversation by speaker B. He presupposes a spiritual reality besides the physical reality we live in. The sentence There is Germany and there is Germany is only interpretable in the light of the following. The presence of the conjunct and carries interpersonal meaning; it implies the meaning of contrast by separating the two, formally identical parts of the sentence. The word for word repetition of the clause without and would carry a totally different meaning. A sentence like 'There is Germany, there is Germany' in discourse can have the interpersonal meaning that the speaker needs time to continue, or that he wants to keep the floor. X Figure 2 014A:341 110