Strategies of Ambiguity
There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume con...
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| description | There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume contributes to overcoming this alternative by focusing on strategies of ambiguity (and the strategic avoidance of ambiguity) both at the production and the reception end of communication. The authors examine ways in which speakers and hearers may use ambiguous words, structures, references, and situations to pursue communicative ends. For example, the question is asked what it actually means when a listener strategically perceives ambiguity, which may happen both synchronically (e.g. in conversations) as well as diachronically (e.g. when strategically ambiguating biblical texts in order to make them applicable to moral lessons). Another example is the question of whether ambiguity awareness increases the strategic use of ambiguity in prosody. Moreover, the authors enquire not only into the effects of ambiguous meanings but also into the strategic use of ambiguity as such, for example, as a response to censorship or as a means of provoking irritation. This volume brings together several contributions from linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, psychology, and theology, and it aims to provide a systematic approach to the strategic production and perception of ambiguity in a variety of texts and contexts. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1608122025-07-29T21:58:03Z Strategies of Ambiguity Bauer, Matthias Zirker, Angelika Philosophy Ambiguity Young Man Syntactic Ambiguity Vice Versa Syntactic Reanalysis Control Chorus Prosodic Phrasing Intransitive Verb Prosodic Boundary Epistemic Ambiguity Phonological Encoding Informed Speakers Young Comrade Code Ambiguity Reading Aloud Amelia Bedelia Multisemiotic Textures Intonational Phrase Textual Ambiguity Surface Structure Ambiguities Prosodic Cues Morphological Reanalysis BBC News Website Narrative Superstructure Hearer Action De Beaugrande thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume contributes to overcoming this alternative by focusing on strategies of ambiguity (and the strategic avoidance of ambiguity) both at the production and the reception end of communication. The authors examine ways in which speakers and hearers may use ambiguous words, structures, references, and situations to pursue communicative ends. For example, the question is asked what it actually means when a listener strategically perceives ambiguity, which may happen both synchronically (e.g. in conversations) as well as diachronically (e.g. when strategically ambiguating biblical texts in order to make them applicable to moral lessons). Another example is the question of whether ambiguity awareness increases the strategic use of ambiguity in prosody. Moreover, the authors enquire not only into the effects of ambiguous meanings but also into the strategic use of ambiguity as such, for example, as a response to censorship or as a means of provoking irritation. This volume brings together several contributions from linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, psychology, and theology, and it aims to provide a systematic approach to the strategic production and perception of ambiguity in a variety of texts and contexts. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. 2025-05-29T05:57:51Z 2025-05-29T05:57:51Z 2025-05-28T08:24:57Z 2023 book ONIX_20250528T101339_9781000987805_81 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102950 9781000987805 9781000987843 9781032287010 9781032286914 9781003298083 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160812 eng Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102950/1/9781000987805.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102950/1/9781000987805.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102950/1/9781000987805.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003298083 10.4324/9781003298083 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 631ac483-8bae-460f-9987-c3f4e4b98bb5 9781000987805 9781000987843 9781032287010 9781032286914 9781003298083 DFG - German Research Foundation Routledge 374 Oxford [...] open access |
| spellingShingle | Philosophy Ambiguity Young Man Syntactic Ambiguity Vice Versa Syntactic Reanalysis Control Chorus Prosodic Phrasing Intransitive Verb Prosodic Boundary Epistemic Ambiguity Phonological Encoding Informed Speakers Young Comrade Code Ambiguity Reading Aloud Amelia Bedelia Multisemiotic Textures Intonational Phrase Textual Ambiguity Surface Structure Ambiguities Prosodic Cues Morphological Reanalysis BBC News Website Narrative Superstructure Hearer Action De Beaugrande thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics Bauer, Matthias Zirker, Angelika Strategies of Ambiguity |
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| topic | Philosophy Ambiguity Young Man Syntactic Ambiguity Vice Versa Syntactic Reanalysis Control Chorus Prosodic Phrasing Intransitive Verb Prosodic Boundary Epistemic Ambiguity Phonological Encoding Informed Speakers Young Comrade Code Ambiguity Reading Aloud Amelia Bedelia Multisemiotic Textures Intonational Phrase Textual Ambiguity Surface Structure Ambiguities Prosodic Cues Morphological Reanalysis BBC News Website Narrative Superstructure Hearer Action De Beaugrande thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics |
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