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Language as a Good Housekeeper – Redundancy in Human Language

Author(s): Midhat Riđanović
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Communication studies, Pragmatics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: Serbo-Croatian language; redundancy; human language; communication; vocabulary; practical use of language;

Summary/Abstract: The article sets out some basic information about the notion of redundancy and the related nations of noise (bath channel noise and code noise), probability and information content. Illustrations from Serbo-Croat are (provided, along with some implications of the principle of redundancy for practical uses of language.

  • Issue Year: 10/1981
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 29-33
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Croatian