Brevity
Title:
Brevity
Author:
Goldstein, Laurence, 1943-
ISBN:
9780191642852
9780191748530
Publication Information:
Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Series:
Oxford linguistics
Oxford linguistics.
Abstract:
Brevity in conversation is a window to the workings of the mind. People use ellipsis and various kinds of pragmatic enrichment keyed to the particular conversational setting, to express concisely what they mean. Distinguished linguists, philosophers and cognitive scientists here say how.
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