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Explanation in Typology (Hardcover): Ilja Serzant, Susanne Maria Michaelis, Natalia Levshina Explanation in Typology (Hardcover)
Ilja Serzant, Susanne Maria Michaelis, Natalia Levshina
R1,193 Discovery Miles 11 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Explanation in Typology (Hardcover): Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, Natalia Levshina, Susanne Maria Michaelis Explanation in Typology (Hardcover)
Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, Natalia Levshina, Susanne Maria Michaelis
R1,106 Discovery Miles 11 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Communicative Efficiency - Language Structure and Use (Hardcover): Natalia Levshina Communicative Efficiency - Language Structure and Use (Hardcover)
Natalia Levshina
R2,899 R2,445 Discovery Miles 24 450 Save R454 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

All living beings try to save effort, and humans are no exception. This groundbreaking book shows how we save time and energy during communication by unconsciously making efficient choices in grammar, lexicon and phonology. It presents a new theory of 'communicative efficiency', the idea that language is designed to be as efficient as possible, as a system of communication. The new framework accounts for the diverse manifestations of communicative efficiency across a typologically broad range of languages, using various corpus-based and statistical approaches to explain speakers' bias towards efficiency. The author's unique interdisciplinary expertise allows her to provide rich evidence from a broad range of language sciences. She integrates diverse insights from over a hundred years of research into this comprehensible new theory, which she presents step-by-step in clear and accessible language. It is essential reading for language scientists, cognitive scientists and anyone interested in language use and communication.

Explanation in Typology (Paperback): Ilja Serzant, Susanne Maria Michaelis, Natalia Levshina Explanation in Typology (Paperback)
Ilja Serzant, Susanne Maria Michaelis, Natalia Levshina
R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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