Ambiguity Can Be Pragmatic, and a Good Thing, Too [electronic resource] / Rong Chen.

Both the speaker and hearer of a conversation can make use of ambiguity to achieve their special purpose in a given situation. The strategies stemming from pragmatic ambiguity offer distinct advantages to speakers and hearers. When dealing with ambiguity, linguists have concentrated on the source of...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Chen, Rong
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1992.
Subjects:	Ambiguity. Communication (Thought Transfer) Discourse Modes. Higher Education. Language Usage. Pragmatics. Semantics.