Un caz particular de memorie lingvistică: discursul repetat
A Particular Case of the Linguistic Memory: the Repeated Discourse

Summary/Abstract: The linguistic memory plays a fundamental role in the speech activity, in which the speaker activates, in a first instance, a certain language, in all its constitutive aspects. This paper addresses a particular case of the linguistic memory, namely the repeated discourse, as it was defined by Eugenio Coseriu. In the conception of the Romanian linguist, the repeated discourse contains everything that is repeated, in an identical or quasi- identical form, in the speech in a particular language, i.e. everything that is reproduced, not actually produced, by speakers, such as the phraseological units of a language (phrases, collocations, expressions, etc.), proverbs, sayings, fragments from literary or other works, etc. The concept of “the repeated discourse” – which has been correlated with that of “the intertextuality” – opposes, from Eugeniu Coșeriu’s perspective, the notion of “the free technique of the discourse”, which refers to the words of a language, as well as to the lexical and grammatical tools and procedures, etc. In this sense, the discourse or the linguistic act of a speaker represents a collage between the repeated discourse and the free technique of the discourse. The main purpose of this paper is to present the most important features of the repeated discourse. The paper also proposes an analysis of some examples of repeated discourse taken from the satire magazine Cațavencii, in which the modification of the repeated discourse becomes an important mechanism for creating the comic.

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