Discusses redundancy in language and proposes an operational definition which could be used in studying the effects of redundancy on communication between writer and reader. (MKM)

Two different approaches to the definition of literature (criterial and prototypical) are described, and some features of a prototypical literary work are outlined. The criterial approach attempts to provide criteria that must be met by all texts to be called literature. The prototype approach focuses on a particularly good example to which other…