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"Next" would be completely redundant if the intent is to refer to the soonest occurrence, though. You can just say the day of the week by itself--the context of referring to a future event makes the intent 100% clear.
When we do use "next", we're literally just using it as an abbreviation of "next week's", because using it the word literally would be pointless for the reason stated above.
Well I, for one, would never personally use anything redundant in speech. Otherwise my own, personal intent, may be muddled. Language has never seen pointless redundancy as it would make no sense for there to be redundancy.
Sorry but I had to tease you there. Redundancy exists plenty in common communication, and, to avoid misinterpretation, I do typically refer days in numerical values. However the mothod of using "next" seems to have a varying definition based on who you speak with and if "next" is a pointless word to use in this context, so would "this" in "this weekend". Why use many words when few do trick? People are going to add filler words for flow of speech. Its okay for it to be useless or filler, just as people use " uhh", "but um", and "like". My argument is just that even if it is redundant, the meaning shouldn't change to the way people are effectively using it as a contraction for "next week's"
Edit: I also want to be clear, this is me dying on this hill lmao, just as the OP asked haha
Redundancies do exist, but I think we naturally try to get rid of them, mostly out of laziness probably, lol. That's the whole reason "u" and "r" ever got substituted for the words they're homophonic with. It only saves two letters, but there it is. Contractions in general are the same thing. "Goodbye" is the final form of "god be with ye", and even that is just "bye" the vast majority of the time.
We are a linguistically lazy lot.
Fare thee well!