Ambiguity : language and communication /
spine title : Ambiguity.
edited by Susanne Winkler.
- x, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Essays proceeding from an international symposium,'Dimensions of Ambiguity', held at Tubingen, Germany in 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Vorwort; Table of Contents; Exploring Ambiguity and the Ambiguity Model from a Transdisciplinary Perspective; Part I: Theoretical Foundations of Ambiguity in Language and Communication; Ambiguity Avoidance is Overrated; Part II: (Strategic) Ambiguity in the Production Process; Strategisches Ambiguieren, Verstehenswechsel und rhetorische Textleistung . Am Beispiel von Shakespeares Antony-Rede; Ambiguity in Shakespeare's Sonnet 138; Von der intendierten Ambiguitt in die Aporie . Monologische und dialogische Erkenntniswege am Beispiel von Platons Hippias Minor; Unbestimmtheit im Recht. Part III: (Strategic) Ambiguity in the Perception ProcessAmbiguity and Sentence Position: An Experimental Case Study on Manner Adverbs; The Influence of Prosody on Children's Processing of Ambiguous Sentences; Discourse Function Ambiguity of Fragments: A Linguistic Puzzle; Ambiguiteat und Schriftauslegung: Beobachtungen zu Augustins Schrift De utilitate credendi; Part IV: (Strategic) Ambiguity in Communicative Interaction; Dimensions of Constitutive Ambiguity; Ambiguity in Speaker-Hearer-Interaction: A Parameter-Based Model of Analysis.
'This volume uncovers a great mystery about language: why can we communicate so effectively despite the fact that ambiguity is pervasive? Conversely, how do speakers use ambiguity to achieve a specific goal? Answers to these questions are provided from different fields: (psycho)linguistics, literary criticism, rhetoric, theology, media studies, [and] law'--
Foreword in German; introduction in English ; articles in German and English.