This volume explores how the effectiveness of communication is shaped by aspects of semantics and pragmatics such as compositionality, the role of the speaker and hearer, and the acquisition of meaning. Optimal Communication surveys recent research in the fields of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and draws from optimality theory to argue that optimal meanings result from a compromise between competing constraints. Optimal Communication will be an invaluable resource for students in cognitive science, linguistics, and natural language semantics.
| ISBN: | 9781575865133 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2005 |
| Author: | Reinhard Blutner |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications an imprint of Center for the Study of Language and Inf |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 181 pages |
| Series: | Lecture Notes |
| Genres: |
Linguistics |
This volume explores how the effectiveness of communication is shaped by aspects of semantics and pragmatics such as compositionality, the role of the speaker and hearer, and the acquisition of meaning. Optimal Communication surveys recent research in the fields of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and draws from optimality theory to argue that optimal meanings result from a compromise between competing constraints.
Optimal Communication features in the following genres: Linguistics
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Optimal Communication was written by Reinhard Blutner and published by CSLI Publications an imprint of Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Optimal Communication has 181 pages
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