Ambiguity
Subtitle: language and communication
By: edited by Susanne Winkler
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9783110403435; 9783110403589
Subjects: Congresses; Ambiguity; Semantics; Psycholinguistics
Description: "This volume uncovers a great mystery about language: why can we communicate so effectively despite the fact that ambiguity is pervasive? Conversely, how do speakers use ambiguity to achieve a specific goal? Answers to these questions are provided from different fields: (psycho)linguistics, literary criticism, rhetoric, theology, media studies, [and] law"--
Notes: Essays proceeding from an international symposium, "Dimensions of Ambiguity", held at Tübingen, Germany in 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword in German; introduction in English; articles in German and English.
Table of contents: title: Vorwort; Table of Contents; Exploring Ambiguity and the Ambiguity Model from a Transdisciplinary Perspective; Part I: Theoretical Foundations of Ambiguity in Language and Communication; Ambiguity Avoidance is Overrated; Part II: (Strategic) Ambiguity in the Production Process; Strategisches Ambiguieren, Verstehenswechsel und rhetorische Textleistung . Am Beispiel von Shakespeares Antony-Rede; Ambiguity in Shakespeare 's Sonnet 138; Von der intendierten Ambiguitèat in die Aporie . Monologische und dialogische Erkenntniswege am Beispiel von Platons Hippias Minor; Unbestimmtheit im Recht.; title: Part III: (Strategic) Ambiguity in the Perception ProcessAmbiguity and Sentence Position: An Experimental Case Study on Manner Adverbs; The Influence of Prosody on Children's Processing of Ambiguous Sentences; Discourse Function Ambiguity of Fragments: A Linguistic Puzzle; Ambiguitèat und Schriftauslegung: Beobachtungen zu Augustins Schrift De utilitate credendi; Part IV: (Strategic) Ambiguity in Communicative Interaction; Dimensions of Constitutive Ambiguity; Ambiguity in Speaker-Hearer-Interaction: A Parameter-Based Model of Analysis.