Optimal Communication
Reinhard Blutner, Helen de Hoop, and Petra Hendriks
This volume explores how the effectiveness of communication is shaped
by aspects of semantics and pragmatics such as compositionality, the
role of the speaker and hearer, and the acquisition of
meaning. Optimal Communication surveys recent research in the fields
of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and draws from optimality theory
to argue that optimal meanings result from a compromise between
competing constraints. Optimal Communication will be an invaluable
resource for students in cognitive science, linguistics, and natural
language semantics.
4/12/2006 ISBN (Paperback): 1575865149 ISBN (Cloth): 1575865130 | 
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Chicago Press |
