TAUTOLOGY

Classification. Tautological repetition may be caused by the following reasons:

1. The speaker's excitement, fright, scare, petrification, grief and other
deep emotions:

Darling, darling Bundle. Oh, darling Bundle. She's dead; I know she's dead. Oh, my darling. Bundle darling, darling Bundle. I do love you so. Bundle -darling - darling...

2. Slipshod organization of the utterance, low cultural level of the speaker:
No one could do the job more better.

I ain 7 got no cigarettes from nobody.

The name of my informant... the name of my informant... the name

of... the name. The name escapes me.

3. Peculiar physical condition of the speaker: alcoholic intoxication, drows­
iness, unconsciousness, etc.:

"I did... what you said..." Dun gasped, closing his eyes and squeez­ing the words out in painful jerks. "It was too late... Give me something. Doc... Give me something, quick-

ly.... Got to hold out... get us down... She's on autopilot but... got to

get down... Must tell Control... must tell..." His mouth moved silently.

With a desperate effort he tried to speak. Then his eyes rolled up and

he collapsed.

Мені болить голова... Я хочу трохи спочити... трохи спочити^

От іменно... спочити б трохи... Communicative functions. Generally speaking, involuntary repetition has little to do with stylistics. It becomes stylistically significant when used in writing as a characterization device.