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Structural Ambiguity in English - An Applied Grammatical Inventory (Hardcover) Loot Price: R12,183
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Structural Ambiguity in English - An Applied Grammatical Inventory (Hardcover): Dallin D. Oaks

Structural Ambiguity in English - An Applied Grammatical Inventory (Hardcover)

Dallin D. Oaks

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"Structural 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.

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Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2010
First published: July 2010
Authors: Dallin D. Oaks
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 46mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 978-1-84706-415-8
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
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LSN: 1-84706-415-9
Barcode: 9781847064158

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