Screen LibraryAmbiguity : language and communication /
This volume uncovers a great mystery about language: why can we communicate so effectively despite the fact that ambiguity is pervasive? Conversely, how do speakers use ambiguity to achieve a specific goal? Answers to these questions are provided from different fields: (psycho)linguistics, literary...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
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English German |
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| Summary: |
This volume uncovers a great mystery about language: why can we communicate so effectively despite the fact that ambiguity is pervasive? Conversely, how do speakers use ambiguity to achieve a specific goal? Answers to these questions are provided from different fields: (psycho)linguistics, literary criticism, rhetoric, theology, media studies, law. |
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1 online resource (x, 368 pages) : illustrations Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110403589 |
| Index Number: | P123 |
| CLC: | H0 |
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Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Table of Contents -- Exploring Ambiguity and the Ambiguity Model from a Transdisciplinary Perspective / Ambiguity Avoidance is Overrated / Strategisches Ambiguieren, Verstehenswechsel und rhetorische Textleistung . Am Beispiel von Shakespeares Antony-Rede / Ambiguity in Shakespeare s Sonnet 138 / Von der intendierten Ambiguit t in die Aporie . Monologische und dialogische Erkenntniswege am Beispiel von Platons Hippias Minor / Unbestimmtheit im Recht / Ambiguity and Sentence Position: An Experimental Case Study on Manner Adverbs / The Influence of Prosody on Children s Processing of Ambiguous Sentences / Discourse Function Ambiguity of Fragments: A Linguistic Puzzle / Ambiguit t und Schriftauslegung: Beobachtungen zu Augustins Schrift De utilitate credendi / Dimensions of Constitutive Ambiguity / Ambiguity in Speaker-Hearer-Interaction: A Parameter-Based Model of Analysis / Die Schuhe von van Gogh: Ambiguit t vs. Unspezifit t im Bild / Index. |