Fawcett (2010: 270-1):
The third type of recursion in language is much less frequent in English. It is reiteration. It occurs when a performer makes the choice to repeat an item for emphasis, and it therefore typically occurs with items that are themselves 'emphasisers', as in She's very very nice. The two occurrences of very are represented as jointly expounding a single temperer (using "<+").
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[1] To be clear, in SFL Theory, repetition is a subtype of paratactic elaboration. In Fawcett's example, very very is a paratactic elaborating word complex that serves as the Sub-Modifier of the Head/Epithet of a nominal group:
[2] To be clear, repetition is not limited to emphasis through the use of grammatical items like very in nominal groups. For example, the following instance of repetition illustrates the use of a lexical item, go, in a projected paratactic elaborating clause complex:
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