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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.

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Author:   Reinhard Blutner ,  Helen de Hoop ,  Petra Hendriks
Publisher:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Imprint:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 1.50cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm
Weight:   0.284kg
ISBN:  

9781575865140

ISBN 10:   1575865149
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   01 December 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Reinhard Blutner is Privatdozent of Theoretical Linguistics at Humboldt University in Berlin and lecturer in artificial intelligence and cognitive philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Helen de Hoop and Petra Hendriks are associate professors of linguistics at the Center for Language Studies at Radbound University Nijmegen in The Netherlands.

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