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OverviewStructural Ambiguity in English is a major new scholarly work that provides an innovative and accessible linguistic description of those features of the language that can be exploited to generate structural ambiguities. Most ambiguity scholarship is concerned with disambiguation—the process of making what is ambiguous clear. This book takes the opposite approach as it focuses on describing the features in the English language that may contribute towards the creation of structural ambiguities, which form the core of some of the best word-plays found in advertising, comedy and marketing. Oaks utilizes a systematic and comprehensive inventory approach that identifies individual elements in the language and their distinctive behaviors that can be manipulated in the deliberate creation of structural ambiguities. In doing so he also provides authentic examples to illustrate the concepts he presents. This book will appeal to researchers and academics interested in the structure of the English language, usage, pragmatics, communication, natural language processing, editing, and humor studies as well as those in marketing, advertising, or humor writing. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dallin D. OaksPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation Edition: NIPPOD Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.808kg ISBN: 9781441140456ISBN 10: 144114045 Pages: 576 Publication Date: 23 February 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationDallin D. Oaks is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at Brigham Young University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |