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Brevity (Hardcover)
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Brevity (Hardcover)
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Brevity in conversation is a window to the workings of the mind.
This book brings it into prominence as both a multifaceted topic of
deep philosophical importance and a phenomenon that serves as a
testing ground for theories in linguistics, psycholinguistics, and
computer modeling. Brevity is achieved in a variety of ways.
Speakers use elliptical constructions and exploit salient features
of the conversational environment in a process of pragmatic
enrichment so as to pack as much as possible into a few words. They
take account of what has already been said in the current and
previous conversations, and tailor their words to what they know
about the beliefs and personalities of the people they're talking
to. Most of the time they do all this with no obvious mental
effort. The book, which brings together distinguished linguists,
philosophers, and cognitive scientists, is the product of an
interactive multidisciplinary research project that extended over
four years. The questions dealt with concern how speakers secure
understanding of what they mean when what they mean far outstrips
the literal or compositional meanings of the sentences or sentence
fragments that they use. Brevity sheds new light on economy in
discourse. It will appeal to linguists, philosophers, and
psychologists at advanced undergraduate level and above.
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