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.

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Author:Reinhard Blutner
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):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht