【英语语言交际中的冗余性】郑明玉.pdf
MastersDegreeThesis Redundancy In English Verbal Communication Major:EnglishLinguistics andLiterature Writer:Zheng Ming Yu Adviser:Professor ChenLinHua Department of English CollegeofForeignLanguages JilinUniversity January,1995
Introduction Redundancyisatechnicaltermderivedfromthemathematicaltheoryofcommu nication,orinformation theory,relatingtotheamountofinformationcarriedbythe signalinamessage.According tothe theory,ifa signal takesupmore ofthe channel munication system ismeasured as the difference between asignalsmaxim
Chapter rOne TheoreticalImplicationsofRedundancy Before elaborating the notion ofredundancy in verbal communication,let us first examine the basic modelof communication described in the classsic work by Shannon andWeaver and see whereredundancy originates.