Natalia Levshina (The Net Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik

Communicative Efficiency

Language Structure and Use

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Illustrated with rich examples, this book explains what makes languages and specific linguistic expressions efficient, and which linguistic choices we unconsciously make in order to communicate effectively. Engaging and accessible, it is essential reading for linguists, cognitive scientists and anyone interested in language use and communication.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781108840798
• ISBN-10: 1108840795
• Artikelnr.: 63698571

Autorenporträt

Natalia Levshina is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Neurobiology of Language department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. She is the author of the best-selling book How to Do Linguistics with R (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Part I. Different Types of Efficiency in Language: 1. Communicative efficiency: main concepts
2. Efficiency and formal length
3. Efficiency and the order of meaningful elements
4. Other ways of saving effort
Part II. Efficiency and Language Evolution: 5. Emergence of efficient language patterns
6. From trade-offs to causal networks
Part III. Case Studies: 7. Efficient form-meaning mapping in causative constructions
8. Differential case marking and efficiency
9. Efficient use of function words in English alternations
10. Conclusions and perspectives Appendices
References
Index.