TY - JOUR AU - Escandell Vidal, María Victoria AU - Vilinbakhova, Elena PY - 2018 DO - 10.1515/ip-2018-0009 SN - 1612-295X UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98607 T2 - Intercultural Pragmatics AB - This paper examines a special pattern of tautological constructions -a is a and b is b- in Spanish and Russian. The phenomenon was first described by A. Wierzbicka, who cited Rudyard Kipling’s “East is East and West and West,” referring to it as... LA - eng M2 - 315 PB - DeGruyter KW - Tautologies KW - Equative structures KW - Coordination KW - Contrast KW - Compositionality TI - Coordinated tautologies in Spanish and Russian TY - journal article VL - 15 ER -