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The dark matter of pragmatics : known unknowns / Stephen C. Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Levinson, Stephen C., 1947- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

1 Online-Ressource (52 Seiten) : Illustrationen

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-009-48958-4 (ebook)

978-1-009-48959-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-009-48963-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1429878151     

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781009489584

Rechteinformation und Access Status: Open Access.

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LOC-SH: Pragmatics

This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of Pragmatics, the 'Dark Matter' of the title. The authors can identify a key bottleneck in human communication, the sheer limitation on the speed of speech encoding: Pragmatics occupies the niche nestled between slow speech encoding and fast comprehension. Pragmatic strategies are tricks for evading this tight encoding bottleneck by meaning more than you say. Five such tricks are reviewed, which are all domains where the authors have made considerable progress. The authors can then ask for each of these areas, where have the authors neglected to push the frontier forward? These are the known unknowns of pragmatics, key areas, and topics for future research. The Element thus offers a brief review of some central areas of pragmatics, and a survey of targets for future research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.