{"id":15254,"date":"2019-04-01T01:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=15254"},"modified":"2019-04-02T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T17:00:12","slug":"lexical-cloning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15254","title":{"rendered":"Lexical Cloning"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his first day, the resident calls
\nhis mother to say he\u2019s a doctor<\/em> doctor.<\/p>\n

She answers, Yes yes! to confirm his doctor<\/em>
\nand her yes. She tells him his doctor<\/em> doctor<\/p>\n

is lexical cloning, repeating a word to indicate
\nthe prototypical meaning is intended,<\/p>\n

but hers is something else: epizeuxis,
\nrepeating a word for emphasis. Ten hours<\/p>\n

later, when he\u2019s offered for dinner the other
\nhalf of a granola bar, he says he wants<\/p>\n

food<\/em> food. And even later, almost midnight,
\nhe asks a crying woman to follow him<\/p>\n

into the small room, and he says, Did not
\nsurvive. And then she asks, Dead<\/em> dead?<\/p>\n

He remembers medical school, his first day,
\nwhen he still dreamed about entomology.<\/p>\n

So the woman in shock will understand
\nher husband is gone, he reaches for her hand<\/p>\n

and says, Dead dead. Once the word epizeuxis<\/em>
\nto him meant only a species of silver moth.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Kristin Robertson<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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