Abstract
Language redundancy is an actual problem for native Russian speakers. In this article, the authors consider the issue of linguistic redundancy in written communication, and describe some of its aspects using examples derived from various scientific and popular-scientific articles in the field of humanities (psychology, linguistics, literary criticism) selected from public Internet sources. The article describes the history of the scientific study of the problem of linguistic redundancy in texts of various styles, presents a typology of examples of linguistic redundancy primarily at the level of a combination of lexical units and at the level of text construction. The research also gives arguments on the reasons for linguistic redundancy emergence and possible steps to overcome it. The object of the study is a popular-scientific and scientific text, the subject of the study are stylistic errors and elements of language redundancy. The material of the analysis is represented in the texts obtained by the method of continuous sampling from collections of scientific articles in the Russian language, posted on the Internet. In each specific example, the authors propose their own way of expressing content without unnecessary lexical units, omitting or replacing them with synonyms and synonymous expressions. The stylistic error causing the problem of linguistic redundancy is a violation of the formal connection of sentences in the text, in which the reference words or link words are repeated. The article provides their typology and examples of errors of this type. The scientific novelty of the research is primarily related to the lack of research on linguistic redundancy on the material of scientific texts In Russian. The authors of the article see the practical value and possible implementation of the results in the drawing attention of the authors of scientific texts to their works in terms of their compliance with the norm in this aspect.
Highlights
LANGUAGE REDUNDANCY AS A LINGUISTIC PROBLEMRedundancy as a property of a language was noticed in research literature in the midtwentieth century in connection with the emergence and development of information theory, for example, Claude Shannon wrote: “In communication theory it is considered that a language can be regarded as a certain probabilistic process that creates a discrete
Language redundancy is an actual problem for native Russian speakers
We argue that the reinforcement which the author wants to express already exists in the semantics of the combination of lexical unit ярко характеризует, the verb in this case has the meaning ‘определять отличительные черты, особенности кого, чего-л.’ [11]
Summary
Redundancy as a property of a language was noticed in research literature in the midtwentieth century in connection with the emergence and development of information theory, for example, Claude Shannon wrote: “In communication theory it is considered that a language can be regarded as a certain probabilistic process that creates a discrete. Gleason believes that “The unrealized transmitting ability of the code arises as a result of the fact that we repeated the signals, and it can be called redundant” He links redundancy with the written language: “In any code like written English, there are different levels of organization. In the textbook by I.P. Susov on introduction to linguistics in the section ‘Information processes and systems’ there is a paragraph dedicated to noise and, as a result, the redundancy of the language as a code. Susov on introduction to linguistics in the section ‘Information processes and systems’ there is a paragraph dedicated to noise and, as a result, the redundancy of the language as a code It notes: “Natural languages are usually characterized by high redundancy, allowing us to recognize speech signals with a sufficient degree of reliability” [8]. A scientific article as a genre of scientific style, in our opinion, should least contain elements of language redundancy
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