Brevity
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780199664986
Subjects: Linguistics; Philosophy
Description: 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.