Brevity /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, U.K. ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Oxford linguistics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Brevity in language and thought
- part II. The philosophy of brevity
- part III. Experimenting with brevity
- part IV. Prolixity.