Ambiguity in Speaker-Hearer-Interaction: A Parameter-Based Model of Analysis
Abstract: In our paper, we follow an interdisciplinary approach to explore the use and functions of ambiguity in communication. Taking up some of Wasow’s observations (this volume), who claims that ambiguity is much less frequently avoided in communication than it is usually expected to be, we begin by distinguishing between two fundamental kinds of ambiguity: ambiguity in the language system and ambiguity in discourse. While the first type has been intensely studied to the point of being overrated with respect to its potentially disturbing effects for communication (cf. Wasow, this volume), we would like to argue that the second ...
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