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From: Janet Joyce < jjoyce at equinoxpub.com >
Subject: Conflicts in Interpretation: Hendriks, de Hoop, Krämer, de Swart
 

	
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Title: Conflicts in Interpretation 
Series Title: Advances in Optimality Theory  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	
Author: Petra Hendriks
Author: Helen de Hoop
Author: Irene Krämer
Author: Henriëtte de Swart

Hardback: ISBN:  9781845534370 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 60 Comment: $95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781845534387 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 18.99 Comment: $37.95


Abstract:

Conflicts in Interpretation applies novel methods of constraint interaction, 
derived from connectionist theories and implemented in linguistics within the 
framework of Optimality Theory, to core semantic and pragmatic issues such 
as polysemy, negation, (in)definiteness, focus, anaphora, and rhetorical 
structure. It explores the hypothesis that a natural language grammar is a set 
of potentially conflicting constraints on forms and meanings. Moreover, it 
hypothesizes that competent language users not only optimize from an input 
form to the optimal output meaning for this form, or vice versa, but also 
consider the opposite direction of optimization, thus taking into account the 
speaker as a hearer and taking into account the hearer as a speaker. The 
book aims to show that such a bidirectional constraint-based grammar sheds 
new light on the relation between form and meaning, within a sentence as well 
as across sentence boundaries, within a single language as well as across 
languages, and within competent adult language users as well as during 
language development. An important dimension of the book is the structured 
investigation of issues at the interface of semantics with syntax and 
pragmatics, such as the effects of distinguishing between speaker's 
perspective and hearer's perspective in comprehension and production, 
stable and instable patterns of form and meaning across languages, and the 
development of a coherent pattern of form and meaning in children.

The book will be of interest to any researcher or advanced student in 
linguistics, cognitive science, language typology, or psycholinguistics who is 
interested in the capacity of our human mind to map meaning onto form, and 
form onto meaning. 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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