Redundancja – zjawisko zbędne czy pożądane? O „nadmiarowości” w definicjach uczniowskich

Abstract

The paper pays attention to two different ways of perceiving the phenomenon of redundancy. “Excessiveness” is sometimes treated as a phenomenon that may be an intended exertion used for persuading as well as for stylistic and semantic enrichment of a text. It may make a dialogue and human communication easy. It also helps to spread knowledge. On the other hand it may mean superfluous information, not necessary for understanding a content of an utterance, and even a language mistake. In the paper the phenomenon of redundancy in definitions formulated by pupils (referring to twelve notion fields) is discussed. The author analyzes mechanisms of forming compounds with excessive components in gathered material. In pupils’ language redundancy appears most often as a pragmatic-communicational category or simply as transgression linguistic rules. In the analyzed material redundant elements were in most cases indications of deviation from correctness rules and not results of purposeful use of them.