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Author:   Laurence Goldstein (School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.704kg
ISBN:  

9780199664986

ISBN 10:   0199664986
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I: Brevity in Language and Thought 1: Jason Merchant, Lyn Frazier, Thomas Weskott, and Charles Clifton, Jr.: Fragment Answers to Questions: a case of inaudible syntax 2: Anne Bezuidenhout: Structuring Silence Versus the Structure of Silence 3: Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Ronnie Cann, and Ruth Kempson: On Coordination in Conversational Dialogue: subsentential talk and its implications 4: Christopher Gauker: Inexplicit Thoughts 5: Reinaldo Elugardo: Sub-Sentential Speech Acts, Reflexive Content, and Pragmatic Enrichment 6: Michael Glanzberg: A New Puzzle About Discourse-Initial Contexts 7: Francois Recanati and Anouch Bourmayan: Transitive Meanings for Intransitive Verbs 8: Matthew Stone: Economy in Embodied Utterances Part II: THe Philosophy of Brevity 9: Laurence Goldstein: Some Consequences of Speaking Loosely 10: Jeff Pelletier: COntext, Compositionality, and Brevity 11: Andreas Stokke: nd and And* 12: Manuel Garcia-Carpintero: Insinuating Information and Accommodating Presupposition Part III: Experimenting with Brevity 13: Eve V. Clark and Chigusa Kurumada: Be Brief : from necessity to choice 14: Julie Sedivy: Sizing up the Speaker: using speaker-specific information to detect the nature of children's inferences about meaning 15: Dan Grodner and Rachel Adler: The Influence of Perspective and Communicative Goals on How Speakers Choose to Refer 16: Ira Noveck and Nicola Spotornp: Narrowing Part IV: Prolixity 17: Friedrich Christoph Doerge: Relevance Theory and Prolixity References Index

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Laurence Goldstein is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent. His books include Logic (Continuum 2005), Clear and Queer Thinking: Wittgenstein's Philosophy and his Relevance to Modern Thought (Rowman & Littlefield and Duckworth 1999) and The Philosopher's Habitat (Routledge 1990).

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