LEXICAL MEANS OF REDUNDANCY IN NATURAL LANGUAGES: A COGNITIVE AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACH
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This article provides a comprehensive linguistic and cognitive analysis of the lexical means of redundancy in natural languages. Traditionally viewed by prescriptive grammars as a stylistic violation or linguistic waste, lexical redundancy—manifested through pleonasms, tautologies, and semantic duplications—is re-evaluated here as a functional communicative asset. Drawing upon information theory, cognitive linguistics, and psycholinguistic frameworks, this paper demonstrates that redundancy is a sophisticated systemic mechanism designed to optimize message decoding, secure information transmission against environmental or cognitive "noise," and reduce mental processing effort. The findings reveal that structural semantic repetition serves critical functions in emphasis, linguistic predictability, and long-term vocabulary retention.
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