Language redundancy in the lingua-semiotic theory by V.G. Gak
The paper provides a detailed analysis of the theoretical approach to linguistic redundancy issues developed by the renowned Russian linguist V. Gak in his works of the 1960s-1990s. Based on a comparative study of parallel texts (Russian-French and French-Russian translations) the paper considers linguistic sign redundancy in relation to such factors as types of speech situations, contexts for secondary nomination selection in texts, types of lexical and analytical structures preferred by translators, types of semantic transformations, and indirect utterance building patterns.