Communicative efficiency: language structure and use
Illustrated with rich examples, this book shows how language users can save effort by choosing efficient structures and word order.
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- Full title :Communicative efficiency : language structure and use / Natalia Levshina.
Summary
Illustrated with rich examples, this book shows how language users can save effort by choosing efficient structures and word order.
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- Publication Date:2022.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2022.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781108895811, 1108895816
- oclc:on1352008461
- Dewey Decimal:401.45
Table of Contents
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I Different Types of Efficiency in Language -- 1 Communicative Efficiency: Main Concepts -- 1.1 What Is Communicative Efficiency? -- 1.2 Benefits and Costs in Communication -- 1.2.1 Types of Benefits -- 1.2.2 Types of Costs -- 1.2.3 Cooperation or Selfish Behaviour? -- 1.3 How to Be Efficient? -- 1.4 Three Principles of Efficient Communication
1.4.1 The Principle of Positive Correlation between Benefits and Costs -- 1.4.2 The Principle of Negative Correlation between Accessibility and Costs -- 1.4.3 The Principle of Maximization of Accessibility -- 1.5 'Good-Enough' Efficiency -- 1.6 Conclusions -- 2 Efficiency and Formal Length -- 2.1 Efficient Length Asymmetries -- 2.2 Accessibility of Referents and Length of Referential Expressions and Markers -- 2.2.1 Efficient Use of Referential Expressions: Hierarchy of Explicitness -- 2.2.2 Dependent Forms of Arguments -- 2.2.3 Expression of Coreferential Objects
2.3 Grammatical Coding Asymmetries and Splits -- 2.3.1 Global Markedness -- 2.3.2 Local Marked…
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