Optimality-theoretic pragmatics meets experimental pragmatics
- The main concern of this article is to discuss some recent findings concerning the psychological reality of optimality-theoretic pragmatics and its central part – bidirectional optimization. A present challenge is to close the gap between experimental pragmatics and neo-Gricean theories of pragmatics. I claim that OT pragmatics helps to overcome this gap, in particular in connection with the discussion of asymmetries between natural language comprehension and production. The theoretical debate will be concentrated on two different ways of interpreting bidirection: first, bidirectional optimization as a psychologically realistic online mechanism; second, bidirectional optimization as an offline phenomenon of fossilizing optimal form-meaning pairs. It will be argued that neither of these extreme views fits completely with the empirical data when taken per se.
Author: | Reinhard Blutner |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310303 |
URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/783.html |
ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
Parent Title (English): | Papers on pragmasemantics / Anton Benz & Reinhard Blutner (ed.) |
Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2009 |
Year of first Publication: | 2009 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
GND Keyword: | Pragmatik; Diskursanalyse; Optimalitätstheorie |
Volume: | 51 |
Page Number: | 26 |
First Page: | 27 |
Last Page: | 52 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 381130142 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Pragmalinguistik/Kommunikationsforschung / Pragmalinguistics/Communication research |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 51 = Papers on pragmasemantics |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306949 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |