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palgrave.com>Title: Optimality Theory and Pragmatics Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?isy";4039-0129-5 Editor: Reinhard Blutner, Humboldt University, Berlin Editor: Henk Zeevat, University of Amsterdam Hardback: ISBN: 1403901295, Pages: 320, Price: AUS $: �55/$75 Abstract: 'This collection clearly demonstrates that Optimality Theory finds fruitful applications in the domain of pragmatics. The papers show how to overcome the traditional gap between linguistic meaning and utterance meaning. Conceptions like relevance, conversational implicature, pragmatic anomaly, grammaticalization, recoverability, and constructional iconicity appear in a new light'. Manfred Krifka, Professor in General Linguistics, Insititute for German Speech and Linguistics, Humboldt University, Germany 'Though the idea of optimization was present in the pragmatic enterprise from the very beginning, we had to wait for this collection in order to see how to integrate pragmatics into Optimality Theory.' Professor Paul Smolensky, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm. The book is intended to satisfy the needs of students and professional researchers interested in pragmatics and optimality theory, and will be of particular interest to those exploring the interfaces of formal pragmatics with grammar, semantics, philosophy of language, information theory and cognitive psychology. Contents Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Editors' Introduction: Pragmatics and Optimality Theory R.Blutner and H.Zeevat On the Interpretation of Stressed Pronouns H.de Hoop Optimization in Focus Identification P.Hendriks Optimality Theoretic Pragmatics and Binding Phenomena J.Mattausch Particles: Pre-supposition Triggers, Context Markers, or Speech Act Markers H.Zeevat Input-Output Mismatches in Optimality Theory D.Beaver and H.Lee On the Optimality Theory Status of 'Unambiguous Encoding' H-M.G�rtner Relevance and Bidirectional Optimality Theory R.van Rooy Remarks on the Architecture of Optimality Theory Syntax Grammars R.Vogel Variation in Demonstrative Choice in Swedish J.Spenader Learning Constraint Subhierarchies: The Bidirectional Gradual Learning Algorithm G.J�ger References Index Lingfield(s): Pragmatics Psycholinguistics Semantics Written In: English (Language Code: English) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=9877Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue