162 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXI
ZINAIDA PAKHOLOK
Lu sk Human De elopmen Ins i u e o he Open
In e na ional Uni e si y Uk aine
Fields o esea ch: philology, philosophy, psychology,
cul u al science, coun y s udy.
DOI: h ps://doi.o g/10.35321 all81-07
CATEGORY OF REPETITION
IN LINGUISTIC DISCOURSE
Ka ojimosi Ka ego ie im linguis ischen Disku s
ANNOTATION
The a icle deals wi h he phenomenon o ca ego ies, ype desc ip ion o linguis ic ca ego ies in
he s uc u e o he language, as well as he his o y o hei s udy. Au g und des Fak es dass
mode ne science is cha ac e ized no only by he o ma ion o new concep s, abe auch by
en iching he con en o long-exis ing ones, he emphasis is made on he ca ego y o epe i ion.
This ca ego y is unde s ood as he objec i e egula i y inhe en in all objec s and phenomena o
he ma e ial wo ld in o de o ep oduce he objec o phenomenon pa ially o comple ely. The
ca ego ical s a us o epe i ion o igina es om he abili y o abs ac and i is ansmi ed by
a sys em o language means. The usage o his e m and he new concep ual scheme o analysis
allows us o desc ibe he he e ogeneous linguis ic phenomena ha unde lie he epe i ion.
KEYWORDS: ca ego y, linguis ic ca ego ies, ca ego y ype, epe i ion, language
uni s, discou se, philosophy, me hodology.
ANOTATIUM
A ikelsnyje analysie wi d ka ego ijų phänomen, besch ieben we den linguis ischen
ka ego ijų A en und ih e Un e suchungs Geschich e. Sei in de mode nen Wissenscha nich
nu o mulie we den neue Konzep e, sonde n und e wei e wi d längs sich o mwusių
Konzep en Inhal , Akzen wi d ka ojimosi Ka ego ie. Diese Ka ego ie e s anden wi d als
objek i us dėsningumus, cha ak e is isch allen ma e ialaus Wel objek en und Phänomenen und
e laubende jene Objek e ode Phänominen zu wiede he s ellen aus Teil ode olls ändig.
Ka ojimosi Ka ego ie S a us beginn on Möglichkei , üh abs ahauens hin und ausd ück
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Ca ego y o Repe i ion in Linguis ic Discou se
sich sp achliche Mi el Sys em. Dieses Beg i a osena und eine neue koncep uale Analysis
schema e laub zu besch eiben un e schiedliche sp achliche E eignisse, die bilden ka ojimosi G undlage.
ESMINIAI WORDŽIAI: Ka ego ie, ling is ischen Ka ego ien, Ka ego ien A en, Ka ojimasis,
Sp acheneine ai, Disku sas, Philosophie, Me hodologie.
1. INTRODUCTION
In mode n philosophical and scien i ic discou se, an inc easing numbe o men ,
signs p o e ha science is on he e e o a quali a i ely new s age o i s de elop-
which, wi h a ce ain deg ee o con en ionali y, can be called pos -neoclassical.
One o he mos impo an ea u es o pos -neoclassical science is associa ed
wi h he ansi ion o he knowledge o complexly o ganized, mul i-le el sys ems.
Language, being such a sys em, spiegel he p ocesses and phenomena ha occu
bo h wi hin a single language and beyond i . In gene al linguis ics he scien i ic
concep o language as a se o ca ego ies and ules (Будагов 1980: 126), which
de ined he concep ual sphe e o he s udy o linguis ic ca ego ies a he
beginning o he 21s cen u y, was widely used.
De ining he concep and gi ing a ca ego y ank o i is an impo an s ep in he
s udy, aimed p ima ily a es ablishing he s a us and place o he ca ego y in he
sys em.
Ca ego ies a e ideal en i ies o human consciousness ha acqui e meaning
and p ac ical ealiza ion in language hence hei close connec ion wi h
linguis ic o ms.
Linguis ic ca ego ies play a signi ican ole in he unc ioning o he languages o e
he wo ld, i espec i e o hei ypological s uc u e and o igin, and such
ca ego ies include he ca ego y o epe i ion (he einau CR). The p oblem o
s udying o epe i ion as a esul o ep oduc ion o a linguis ic o speech uni , in
whole o pa ly, has always been ele an o science and has i s o igins in ancien
he o ic. In mode n imes, he ac i e s udy o epe i ion as a linguis ic phenomenon
began in he middle o 1950s. The la ges numbe o s udies in linguis ics, o e wo
hund ed, is ela ed o ex (Москальчук
2003: 22).
Die linguis ischen Aspek e o he ca ego y o epe i ion ha e been and s ill a e
one o he cen al p oblems o mode n linguis ics. They do no exhaus hei
heo e ical and p ac ical po en ial, bu encou age a cons an sea ch o a new
pe spec i e.
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The main pu pose o he a icle is o p esen a new concep ual scheme o
he analysis o CR. Acco ding o his pu pose, he main asks a e o desc ibe
he ypes o linguis ic ca ego ies; o ep esen he his o y o hei s udy;
o CR de ine; o name he uni s o he language sys em ha o m he CR; o
ind ou he place o he CR in he language sys em; o jus i y he necessi y
o he use o he e m CR o he e ogeneous epe i ions.
2. CONCEPT OF CATEGORIES
IN LINGUISTICS
The p ocess o lea ning linguis ic ca ego ies began in ancien imes. I was based on
he logical and seman ic p inciple, because o which objec s, p ocesses and hei
p ope ies we e in he ocus o a en ion. In linguis ic eali y ca ego ies o pa s o
speech we e dis inguished: noun and adjec i e, e b and ad e b. In he classical
adi ion, pa s o speech began o be conside ed in a new, onomasiological
pe spec i e (con en , o m, unc ion) and om he s andpoin o he heo y o
nomina ion (pa s o speech wi h ull and incomple e nomina ion), ha implice he
dialec ic o hei cogni ion. A signi ican place in he his o y o science is occupied by
he heo y o Oleksand Po ebnia abou he o ma ion o linguis ic ca ego ies in he
s uc u e o language. The scien is was he i s o in oduce he concep o
g amma ical ca ego y in o Uk ainian g amma , using i in ela ion o such phenomena
as a e b, noun, ense, numbe , pe ec and impe ec o m, anima eness and
inanima eness, 3 d pe son, ins umen al case (Потебня 1958: 3845, 8283). In den wo ks
o Le Shche ba äuße e die Idee ha he exis ence o any g amma ical ca ego y is
de e mined by he close, inex icable connec ion o i s meaning and all o mal
ma ke s (Shche ba 1957: 65). Fu he de elopmen o hese ideas can be ound in I an
Meshchanino s wo ks. In Beziehung zu concep ual ca ego ies, he esea che
concluded ha hey con ey in he language i sel he concep s exis ing in a gi en
social en i onmen (Мещанинов 1978: 238). Je zy Ku yłowicz beme k e dass he
ca ego ies o case ( o a noun), ime ( o a e b), deg ees o compa ison ( o
adjec i es) can be conside ed as he mos impo an pa o he mo phological
s uc u e o he language, hey o m he co e o any desc ip i e g amma and a e
o p ima y in e es o a philologis
(Курилович 1965: 428).
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Aleksand Bonda ko in he book Theo y o mo phological ca ego ies p esen ed he
expe ience o cons uc ing a sub heo y o mo phological ca ego ies on an
induc i e conc e e-linguis ic basis. The au ho ʼs app oach o special
e minological iden i ica ion is aluable (Bonda ko 1976: 10). One o he mos s udied
ypes o linguis ic ca ego ies a e g amma ical ones, which gene alize g amma ical
meanings ha a e co ela i e in con en and me hod o exp ession and combine
hem in o a single sys em (Курилович
1962: 14).
I is necessa y o dis inguish g amma ical ca ego ies om he lexical and
g amma ical ca ego ies, which a e g oups o wo ds wi hin a ce ain pa o wo ds.
They a e cha ac e ized by a common seman ic ea u e, he p esence o absence
o a o mal mo phological exp ession, he in e ac ion wi h ela ed g amma ical
ca ego ies, he p esence o absence o a se ies o o ms inside he ca ego y.
Lexico-g amma ical ca ego ies a e o ms o hinking ha e lec any aspec s o
objec i e ac i i y in ou minds. Die Bildung on No men o g amma ical ca ego ies
e olg e a he same ime as he s udy o concep ual ones, which a e iden i ied wi h
seman ic no ms o ega ded as di e en aspec s o he same objec .
The ques ion emains unclea wha exac ly should be assigned o seman ic
ca ego ies. Consequen ly, he classi ica ion o he linguis ic ca ego ies o he
h ee bina y ypes was p oposed, which is based on p i a i e opposi ions. The
i s ype includes uni e sal ca ego ies inhe en in all o mos languages o he
wo ld, and non-uni e sal, o he o he o mal-seman ic ca ego ies, di ided in o
ou g oups: p ope g amma ical, lexical-g amma ical, seman ic, lexical-seman ic
and concep ual; he hi d ype is o med by explici and implici ca ego ies
(Колоїз 2006: 76).
The wo ks o o eign schola s we e in ac i e use in gene al linguis ics. The
b ainwa es abou he na u e o he ca ego ies belong o Joseph Vend yes, who
a i med: g amma ical ca ego ies and logical ones e y a ely co e each o he ;
almos ne e he numbe o he i s and second does no coincide (Вандриес
20012: 112).
Leona d Bloom ield conside ed ca ego ies o pa s o speech, in lec ional o ms,
syn ac ic ca ego ies cha ac e is ic o di e en languages o he wo ld. E be on e
ha , ne e heless, pa s o speech should no be s udied in ela ion o di e en
phenomena o he eal wo ld, bu only in hei unc ions in he syn ac ic s uc u e o
he English language (Блумфилд 1968: 297). O o Jespe sen, in his Philosophy o G amma ,
poin ed ou ha non-language ca ego ies, which a e independen o he andom ac s
o exis ing languages, a e uni e sal because hey apply o all languages, al hough hey
a e
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clea and unambiguous way (Есперсен
20022: 58).
In mode n Wes e n linguis ics, in e es in language ca ego iza ion has in ensi ied
a e he scien i ic esea ch o Eleano Rosch (Rosch 1978). The app oach based
on he p o o ypes by Geo ges Kleibe (Kleibe 2003) and John Taylo (Taylo 20033) is
widely used. Howe e , such an app oach has been easonably c i icized by William
C o and Alan C use (C o 2004). Resea che s a Law ence Ba salou (Ba salou
2003), William C o , and Alan C use (C o 2004) ha e p oposed imp o ed
ca ego iza ion models, based on which Je ome Feldman o mula ed new
es ic ions ha human na u e imposes on ca ego iza ion p ocesses (Feldman
2006).
A b ie excu sion in o he his o y o he s udy o linguis ic ca ego ies allows us o
make ce ain ha he philosophical base o linguis ic me hodology is made up o he
ca ego ies o classical dialec ics. In diese Hinsich , die wich igs e me hodologische
Au gabe is , solche issues zu lösen, e s ens, how he ca ego ies a e mani es ed in
he unc ioning and de elopmen o he language, and, zwei ens, wha he language
gi es o hei o ma ion, de elopmen and unde s anding (Ale ie enko 2005:
329).
Ca ego ies, being he ideal mo phogenesis o consciousness, ha e meaning and
p ac ical implemen a ion in he language. A i s , hey a e o med unconsciously in
human ac i i y and only hen a e e lec ed in he language. De P ozess on
o menden Ka ego ien is eng e bunden mi he o ma ion and cons an
de elopmen o he human language, and he ques ion o a sys em o scien i ic
ca ego ies in a ious b anches o knowledge, including linguis ics, emains essen ial
o science.
Ca ego y is a key concep in linguis ics. On he one hand, a ca ego y has a sys emic
and s uc u al con en as a de e mining componen o he ho izon al and e ical
cons uc ion o he in e p e i e model o a language. On he o he hand, his
concep is me hodological, i is a ool o cognizing and classi ica ion o linguis ic
ma e ial. Linguis ic ca ego ies a e a p ojec ion o no only he mechanism o
cogni ion, bu also human consciousness. The e is a wide and na ow unde s anding
o he ca ego y in linguis ics. In a wide unde s anding a ca ego y is conside ed as
any g oup o linguis ic elemen s, dis inguished on he basis o some gene al
p ope y, and as a ce ain ea u e ha is undamen al o he di ision o
homogeneous linguis ic uni s in o classes, membe s o which ha e he same
meaning o his ea u e (Булыгина, Крылов
1990: 385).
The di e ences in he use o he e m ca ego y in mode n concep s o
g amma ical heo y we e poin ed ou by John Lyons. This e m is o en used

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like he e ms class o se o ep esen any g oup o elemen s seen in he
desc ip ion o speci ic languages (Лайонз 1978: 286). The al eady ci ed Zhanna Koloiz
sugges s o unde s and a linguis ic ca ego y as he abs ac gene ic concep ,
which includes species ea u es and is a o m o e lec ion o he mos gene al laws
o objec i e eali y in he minds o people
(Колоїз 2006: 74).
Since a he p esen s age o esea ch he e is no adequa e de ini ion o he
e m ca ego y, he e is no gene ally accep ed classi ica ion o linguis ic
ca ego ies a he p esen s age o esea ch.
3. THE PHENOMENON OF REPETITION
In ecen decades, epe i ion has been in ol ed in sol ing ca ego iza ion p oblems.
Using he e m epe i ion, we he eby ecognize he quan i a i e deg ee o
ealiza ion o a phenomenon, ac ion, objec , sign, s a e wi hou es ic ion.
Quan i a i e de e mina ion un e scheide epe i ion p ocess om epe i ion
insel on a scale o mo e less.
The heme o epe i ions ha a ose in he ancien wo ld (Античные 1996: 280285) has
been en iched o e he cen u ies by empi ical ma e ial ha equi es e hinking and
sys ema iza ion. T o z bedeu ende Achie emen s in de S udie on e schiedenen
Aspek en on Wiede holungen, ih e P obleme bleiben ele an und benö igen eine
Reihe on heo e ischen P obleme sol ing ha would make possible o pene a e
he mechanisms o he language unc ioning. De ka ego ical s a us o epe i ion,
he ea u es o he exp ession o epe i ions, on he one hand, in philosophy and
science and, on he o he hand, in e e yday consciousness and li e a y wo ks, a e
o mula ed in he s udies o specialis en om di e en ields o knowledge.
Language, like hinking, e lec s he eal wo ld by i s own means and
ex a-linguis ic eali y, which is con ained in speci ic meanings, linguis ic
abs ac ions o wo ds and g amma ical o ms. Tha is why he language e lec s
no only objec s, bu also hei inhe en connec ions. Since he connec ions
be ween he phenomena o eali y as i is, ha e a dialec ical dependence, hen
eali y is also cha ac e ized by de elopmen o dialec ics.
linguis ic Mode n linguis ics has an unde s anding o epe i ion as a p ocess and
i s esul , ha is, epe i ion uni .
In o al monologue, he e a e many epe i ions o sounds, syllables, wo ds,
ph ases and sen ences. Mos ly hey a e unin en ional and a ely used as a
special echnique o emphasizing hough . Einige on ihnen sind e bunden mi de
uno icial ans o ma ion o he in e nal speech in o he ex e nal o o he simple
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wan o ind o he wo ds o he objec o in luence. The e a e many pleonasms and
au ological exp essions. Speake s, i hey do no pay special a en ion o i , do no
hea in hei speech he wo ds used wi h he same oo , anapho o epipho a. The
epe i ions in he dialogic speech a e p o oked by spon anei y, he need o espond
immedia ely o he p e ious u e ance o he add essee. Since e lec ion is
minimized, he o ma ion and exp ession o hough occu s almos simul aneously
wi h he ansmission o he add essee. Func ional ea u es o dialogical
epe i ions gi e he eason o di ide hem in o wo g oups. The i s con ains
epe i ions o na a i e sen ences ha do no cause a speech esponse; hey mus
be ega ded as mechanical, unconscious ep oduc ion o a p e ious ema k. This ype
o epe i ion is based on echolalia an unconscious epe i ion o o he pe sons wo ds,
which lacks subjec i e-modal meanings o he speake and does no elucida e any
in o ma ion. The second g oup o dialogic epe i ions include such ema ks ha
con ey subjec i e-modal meanings and seek new in o ma ion. In addi ion, his g oup
can be di ided in o wo subg oups. The i s is a epe i ion o exclama ion,
in e oga i e and na a i e sen ences ha begin wi h he wo ds yes o no. The
sen ences o his subg oup do no ca y new in o ma ion, hey include objec ions,
doub s, dissa is ac ion, e c. The second subg oup is o med by ema ks ha a e
domina ed by in ellec ual in o ma ion. W i en speech is mo e gene alized and logical
han o al, i is no spon aneous, i can be edi ed, so he epe i ions used in i should
be p ope ly e alua ed. Unconscious use o epe i ion leads o hei edundancy, is
pe cei ed as a speech de ec caused by ocabula y po e y, inabili y o use
synonymy. Conscious use allows o use epe i ion as a s ylis ic de ise. I comes om
a olk adi ion known o all peoples o he wo ld. An example o he conscious use o
de s anding o he mul i unc ionali y o his phenomenon. In spoken language, he e
is o en a epe i ion o wo ds, due o he lack o speech cul u e o he speake . I is
di icul o choose he igh wo d and a pe son does no da e o exp ess opinion
epe i ion is a is ic speech, in which he au ho demons a es he dep h o un-
clea ly, illing he meaning ul pauses wi h uni s ha do no ha e any meaning: well,
yeah, so, ha is. Such epe i ions a e called ille wo ds.
Clichés a e well-known in e e yday speech, because in o dina y communica ion ac s
we y o use eady-made e ique e o mulas o g ee ings, wishes, goodbyes, e c.
The appea ance o he cliché is ela ed o he equency and epe i ion o he
speech si ua ion.
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High- equency uni s in a speech o in a sepa a e ex a e called key wo ds;
hey a e included in he speake s ac i e ocabula y and a e illus a i e o
impo an concep s.
4. REPETITION CATEGORY
The p esence o ca ego iza ion in he language should be seen in he possibili y o
abs ac ion. Die G undlage on ca ego iza ion is die Fähigkei o he human mind
o isola e om he phenomena o he su ounding eali y, om he low o
in o ma ion any common, ai ly s able ea u es ha a e egula ly epea ed in
some backg ound en i onmen (Mane ko 2000: 39). In linguis ics, he ques ion o CR
om aspec ological poin was conside ed by Olga G eko a o he i s ime
(Грекова 1979: 3748) and Galina Pano a (Панова 1979: 8). The essence o epe i ion is o
con ey a deg ee o measu e, quali y, ac ion ela i e o he no m (ze o deg ee o
measu emen ). The linguis ic aspec s o CR ha e been and emain one o he cen al
p oblems o mode n linguis ics.
Linguis ic epe i ion is an ex emely wide ange o heo e ical p oblems in i s
spec um. I co e s esea ches o on ology, epis emology and a he same ime he
in e ac ion o epe i ion wi h o he language ca ego ies: quan i y, in ensi y,
quali y, aspec uali y. De en scheidende Komponen o unde s anding o he
essence o epe i ion in a language is he iden i ica ion and comp ehensi e analysis
o he ea u es o i s o mal ep esen a ion, syn ac ic implemen a ion, he
o ma ion o a seman ic scope and in luence on he ac ual di ision o a sen ence.
The linguis ic aspec s o he epe i ion ca ego y we e and s ill a e one o he
cen al p oblems o mode n linguis ics. Being a he junc ion o allied and
noncon iguous disciplines, he p oblems o epe i ion no only do no exhaus hei
heo e ical and p ac ical po en ial, bu , on he con a y, encou age a con1843, he
s an sea ch o a new pe spec i e in he s udy. I ʼs no coincidence as a back as
Danish hinke , heologian and philosophe Sø en Kie kegaa d w o e: Repe i ion is a
new ca ego y ha emains o be in oduced (Керкегор 1997:
30–31).
Among he ca ego ies ha a e on he ma gins o scien i ic esea ch, o a long
ime he e was a ca ego y o epe i ion. Howe e , now i is one o hose language
ca ego ies, he in e es in s udying o which is g owing, since i is associa ed
wi h such basic philosophical concep s as quali y, quan i y, ex end, deg ee, which
a e essen ial cha ac e is ics o any phenomenon. The essence o epe i ion is
he ans e o ex end o deg ee, quali y ex end, ex end o ac ion compa ed o
he no m (das is , a e e ence poin o a ze o deg ee o ex end).
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The concep ual scope o he ca ego y o epe i ion lies in i s on ological na u e,
because i no only e lec s he objec i e wo ld, bu is an in eg al pa o i s
being (Pakholok 2019: 104113).
P ocess o epe i ion ac s as an objec i e eali y ha a pe son unconsciously
assimila es while gaining expe ience. The abili y o epea can be in e p e ed in
e ms o he a che ype o human consciousness. The philosophical basis o
epe i ion is he law o he ansi ion o quan i a i e changes o quali a i e
ones. In linguis ics, i inds display a he le el o seman ics, since an elemen
epea ed wice o se e al imes acqui es a new meaning.
Die Ka ego ie o epe i ion is included in he ca ego y o lexical and g amma ical
ca ego ies, das is , he meaning o he deg ee ex end, quali y ex end, ac ion
ex end is ausged ück by lexical and g amma ical means, and he
unc ional-seman ic epe i ion ca ego y is cha ac e ized by he uni y o o m
and con en .
In mode n imes he ca ego y o epe i ion, das is conside ed as a uni e sal
language ca ego y ha o ganizes he communica ion p ocess, deck he
psychological, linguis ic and communica i e-p agma ic aspec s o communica i e
ac i i y; pa icipa es in he implemen a ion o he in o ma i e and ad e ising
unc ion o ex s; p o ides hei p agma ic-communica i e e ec i eness. Mode n
science is cha ac e ized no only by he o ma ion o new concep s, bu also by
en iching he con en o long-exis ing ones, expanding he scope o hei
applica ion. Am p esen s age o he linguis ics de elopmen , new oppo uni ies
open up o ui ul esea ches, bo h gene al heo e ical, undamen al, and
applied, which a e a he c oss oads o a ious sciences, in pa icula , na u al and
echnical, and a e ela ed o scien i ic knowledge as a whole, in all b anches.
In he ca ego y o epe i ion as a ca ego y o consciousness, in addi ion o
he adi ional logical o m, a pe cep ual o m o ca ego iza ion is dis inguished.
The pe cep ual comp ehension o epe i ion is domina ed by logical ca ego ical
con en , howe e , i is no exhaus i e o he pe cep ual image o ime. The
uni e sal cha ac e is ics o epe i ion a e eco ded in logical ca ego ies; in he
pe cep ual ision o ime hey ake he o m o subjec i e being. Pe cep ual
ca ego iza ion, in con as o logical ca ego iza ion, has i s own cons an con en ,
seman ic con en and s uc u ed subca ego y o ganiza ion, which gi es i a ull
ca ego ical s a us.
Pe cep ual epe i ion can be de ined as he in e nal empi ical o ganiza ion o
human sensa ions, in which objec i e empo al eali y is e lec ed. The
ca ego ical na u e o pe cep ual ime lies in he ac ha , wi h all he indi idual
a iabili y o he imagina i e pe cep ion o ime, a cons an uni e sal con en is