Optimality Theory and Pragmatics
Reinhard Blutner author Anne Bezuidenhout author Richard Breheny author Sam Glucksberg author Francesca Happé author H Zeevat editor Kent Bach editor Francois Recanati editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave USA
Published:19th Dec '03
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm. The book is intended to satisfy the needs of students and professional researchers interested in pragmatics and optimality theory, and will be of particular interest to those exploring the interfaces of formal pragmatics with grammar, semantics, philosophy of language, information theory and cognitive psychology.
'This collection clearly demonstrates that Optimality Theory finds fruitful applications in the domain of pragmatics. The papers show how to overcome the traditional gap between linguistic meaning and utterance meaning. Conceptions like relevance, conversational implicature, pragmatic anomaly, grammaticalization, recoverability, and constructional iconicity appear in a new light'. - Manfred Krifka, Professor in General Linguistics, Insititute for German Speech and Linguistics, Humboldt University, Germany
'Though the idea of optimization was present in the pragmatic enterprise from the very beginning, we had to wait for this collection in order to see how to integrate pragmatics into Optimality Theory.' - Professor Paul Smolensky, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University
ISBN: 9781403901293
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 556g
304 pages
2004 ed.