what is the difference between tautology and redundancy in the english language?

Answer 1

In rhetoric, a tautology is an unnecessary (and usually unintentional) repetition of meaning, utilising different words, i.e. saying the same thing twice.

Tautology, often regarded as a fault of style, was defined by Fowler as "saying the same thing twice". In fact, it is not necessary for the entire meaning of a phrase to be repeated; if a part of the meaning is repeated in such a way that it appears as unintentional or clumsy, then it may be described as tautology. On the other hand, a repetition of meaning which improves the style of a piece of speech or writing is not usually described as tautology.



Redundancy, in general terms, refers to the quality or state of being redundant, that is: exceeding what is necessary or normal; or duplication. This can have a negative connotation, especially in rhetoric: superfluous or repetitive; or a positive implication, especially in engineering: serving as a duplicate for preventing failure of an entire system.

Answer 2

Define Tautologous

Answer 3

Redundancy is usually intentional repetition to drive a point home....tautology is unnecessary repetition that is associated with blabber, lol.

Answer 4

Tautologists repeat unnecessarily while Redundants retire indefinitely.

Answer 5

tautology means repition of same information
redundancy means supply of useless information

Answer 6

tautology -- use of words that (esp needlessly or pointlessly) say the same thing .
redundancy -- overflow , copiousness , superfluity .

Answer 7

Redundancy:Saying same thing over again, but in different words.
Redundancy: Supplying unnessesary information.

Answer 8

Spelling and pronunciation. How's that for simplicity, erroneous though it is!

Answer 9

Can someone provide a few examples of each, please?