Brevity

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Brevity in conversation is a window to the workings of the mind. People use ellipsis and various kinds of pragmatic enrichment, keyed to the particular conversational setting, to express concisely what they mean. Distinguished linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists here say how.

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Full title :Brevity

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Publication Date:2013

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013

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Description:353 s

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ISBN:0199664986, 9780199664986
oclc:ocn868206056
LC Classification:P
Dewey Decimal:401.41

PART I: BREVITY IN LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT ; 1. Fragment Answers to Questions: case of inaudible syntax ; 2. Structuring Silence Versus the Structure of Silence ; 3. On Coordination in Conversational Dialogue: subsentential talk an its implications ; 4. Inexplicit Thoughts ; 5. Sub-Sentential Speech Acts, Reflexive Content, and Pragmatic Enrichment ; 6. A New Puzzle About Discourse-Initial Contexts ; 7. Transitive Meanings for Intransitive Verbs ; 8 Economy in Embodied Utterances ; PART II: THE PHILOSOPHY OF BREVITY ; 9. Som Consequences of "Speaking Loosely" ; 10. COntext, Compositionality, and Brevit ; 11. nd and And* ; 12. Insinuating Information and Accommodating Presupposition ; PART III: EXPERIMENTING WITH BREVITY ; 13. "Be Brief": from necessity to choice ; 14. Sizing up the Speaker: using speaker-specific information to detect the nature of children's inferences about meaning ; 15. The Influence of Perspective and Communicative Goals on How Speakers Choose to Refer ; 16. Narrowing ; PART IV: PROLIXITY ; 17. Relevance Theory and Prolixity ; References ; Index