Structural Ambiguity in English
Structural Ambiguity in English

Author: Dallin D. Oaks

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-05-27

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 1441141375

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Structural Ambiguity in English is a major new scholarly work that provides an innovative and accessible linguistic description of those features of the language that can be exploited to generate structural ambiguities. Most ambiguity scholarship is concerned with disambiguation-the process of making what is ambiguous clear. This book takes the opposite approach as it focuses on describing the features in the English language that may contribute towards the creation of structural ambiguities, which form the core of some of the best word-plays found in advertising, comedy and marketing. Oaks utilizes a systematic and comprehensive inventory approach that identifies individual elements in the language and their distinctive behaviors that can be manipulated in the deliberate creation of structural ambiguities. In doing so he also provides authentic examples to illustrate the concepts he presents. This book will appeal to researchers and academics interested in the structure of the English language, usage, pragmatics, communication, natural language processing, editing, and humor studies as well as those in marketing, advertising, or humor writing.

Structural Ambiguity in English
Structural Ambiguity in English

Author: Dallin D. Oaks

Publisher: Continuum

Published: 2012-02-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781441140456

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Structural Ambiguity in English is a major new scholarly work that provides an innovative and accessible linguistic description of those features of the language that can be exploited to generate structural ambiguities. Most ambiguity scholarship is concerned with disambiguation-the process of making what is ambiguous clear. This book takes the opposite approach as it focuses on describing the features in the English language that may contribute towards the creation of structural ambiguities, which form the core of some of the best word-plays found in advertising, comedy and marketing. Oaks utilizes a systematic and comprehensive inventory approach that identifies individual elements in the language and their distinctive behaviors that can be manipulated in the deliberate creation of structural ambiguities. In doing so he also provides authentic examples to illustrate the concepts he presents. This book will appeal to researchers and academics interested in the structure of the English language, usage, pragmatics, communication, natural language processing, editing, and humor studies as well as those in marketing, advertising, or humor writing.

Semantic Interpretation and the Resolution of Ambiguity
Semantic Interpretation and the Resolution of Ambiguity

Author: Graeme Hirst

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780521428989

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Semantic interpretation and the resolution of ambiguity presents an important advance in computer understanding of natural language. While parsing techniques have been greatly improved in recent years, the approach to semantics has generally improved in recent years, the approach to semantics has generally been ad hoc and had little theoretical basis. Graeme Hirst offers a new, theoretically motivated foundation for conceptual analysis by computer, and shows how this framework facilitates the resolution of lexical and syntactic ambiguities. His approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on research in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, montague semantics, and cognitive psychology.

Analysing English Sentences
Analysing English Sentences

Author: Andrew Radford

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-02-12

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 0521516978

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This book provides a concise introduction to work in syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program.

Ambiguity in Psycholinguistics
Ambiguity in Psycholinguistics

Author: Joseph F. Kess

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9027225141

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The authors present a comprehensive overview of past research in ambiguity in the field of psycholinguistics. Experimental results have often been equivocal in allowing a choice between the single-reading hypothesis and the multiple-reading hypothesis of processing of ambiguous sentences. This text reviews the arguments and experimental results in support of each of these views, and further investigates the contributions of context and thematic constraints in the process of ambiguity resolution. Commentary is also made on the possible hierarchical ordering of difficulty in the treatment of ambiguity, as well as critically related considerations like bias, individual differences, general cognitive strategies for dealing with multiphase representations, and the inherent differences between lexical and syntactic ambiguity.

The Changing English Language
The Changing English Language

Author: Marianne Hundt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-07-20

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1107086868

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Experts from psycholinguistics and English historical linguistics address core factors in language change.

Syntactic Structures
Syntactic Structures

Author: Noam Chomsky

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-05-18

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 3112316002

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Persuasive Business Proposals
Persuasive Business Proposals

Author: Tom Sant

Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780814427583

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Use the latest technology and techniques to craft winning proposals.

Semantics - Lexical Structures and Adjectives
Semantics - Lexical Structures and Adjectives

Author: Claudia Maienborn

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 311062639X

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Discover vital research on the lexical and cognitive meanings of words. In this exciting book from a team of world-class researchers, in-depth articles explain a wide range of topics, including thematic roles, sense relation, ambiguity and comparison. The authors focus on the cognitive and conceptual structure of words and their meaning extensions such as coercion, metaphors and metonymies. The book features highly cited material – available in paperback for the first time since its publication – and is an essential starting point for anyone interested in lexical semantics, especially where it meets other cognitive and conceptual research.