Why languages differ : variation in the conventionalization of constraints on inference

  • Sperber and Wilson (1996) and Wilson and Sperber (1993) have argued that communication involves two processes, ostension and inference, but they also assume there is a coding-decoding stage of communication and a functional distinction between lexical items and grammatical marking (what they call 'conceptual' vs. 'procedural' information). Sperber and Wilson have accepted a basically Chomskyan view of the innateness of language structure and Universal Grammar.

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Author:Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157814
URL:http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/whylgsdiffer.pdf
Parent Title (German):Language Variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff, ed by David Bradley ; Pacific Linguistics; 555
Publisher:Australian National Univ., Research School of Pacific Studies
Place of publication:Canberra
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2010/07/19
Year of first Publication:2003
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/07/19
GND Keyword:Kommunikation
Page Number:17
First Page:113
Last Page:144
Source:http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/whylgsdiffer.pdf ; (in:) Language Variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff, ed by David Bradley. - (Pacific Linguistics; 55
HeBIS-PPN:229215017
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtheorie / Theory of language
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Pragmalinguistik/Kommunikationsforschung / Pragmalinguistics/Communication research
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht