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Optimality-theoretic Pragmatics Meets Experimental Pragmatics by Blutner, Reinhard (author) is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Optimality-theoretic Pragmatics Meets Experimental Pragmatics about?
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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It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- Blutner, Reinhard (author)
- Publisher
- University Library J. C. Senckenberg
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)