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This paper examines two linking strategies (observable in spoken syntax) that involve the repetition of a speech fragment. To this end, I use categories from traditional grammar as well as categories from online-syntax (Auer 2000, 2009), especially retraction, suggesting a distinction between retraction and recycling. The first pattern is a technique used by speakers to make informational content more explicit, as a two-step strategy of topical elaboration. One general and, from a referential point of view, under-determinated constituent (a) precedes another constituent that clarifies the content of the first constituent; this second constituent (b) contains the focal information supporting the assertion of the whole utterance, as in (a) ils pourraient être sympa (b) ils pourraient nous les donner avant les vacances de pâques. The second pattern is similar to the pseudo-cleft construction and consists of two constituents. The first is a verbal phrase containing a cataphoric pronoun as a direct object (a); the second is a duplication of this verbal phrase containing a constituent in the object slot that is co-referent to the cataphoric pronoun (b), as in (a) on pourrait dire ça (b) on pourrait dire que les bourgeois à l'heure actuelle peuvent beaucoup voyager. I show that the repetition functions as a contextualization cue, working in concert with other information, such as prosodic cues, that highlight patterns of speech organization, making them "visible". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]