The Category And Cause Of The Redundant Attribute

The concept of the redundant information is from informatics, we useit for improving the resistibility of the source of the information, so as todecreasing the losing of the information in the delivery. The redundantattribute is the structure that the meaning of the attribute and the meaningof the center is sort of same, and it is the means with which peopleachieve the communication aim. First of all, we defined the redundantattribute as a lingual structure that the meaning of the attribute repeats themeaning of the center partly when the attribute and the center are grouped.Secondly, we classified the redundant attribute to two categories: one isthe attribute of the reduplicate information, the other is the attribute ofthe connotative information. Thirdly, we analyzed the cause of theredundant attribute. The cause includes three parts, the semantic one, thecognitive one and the pragmatic one. Concretely, the semantic reason arethe lexical intangibility and dark and the abundance of the synonymousformat in the language. In the cognitive aspect, the main reason is thediagrammatic iconicity and the quantitative iconicity in the language. Inthe pragmatic aspect, the redundant attribute can complement the lingualstructure and project the conversational focus.