Principle of Economy in Linguistic Communication

• Authors: Marek Tokarz

Title variants

PL

Zasada ekonomiki w komunikacji językowej

EN

Principle of Economy in Linguistic Communication

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The subject of the paper is the ways of interpreting messages that are defective either syntactically or semantically. The formal models of communicative events in which such messages are being sent are based on a specially designed situational ontology. A situation is something of the sort of pragram, and it is meant to represent both the context of use and the meaning of an utterance. Five „economy rules” explain why (and how) language is such a user-friendly device, highly tollerant to misuse: slips of the tongue, grammatical incorrectness, mistakes in meaning, etc.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Filozofii
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 1994
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 37-56

Dates

published

1994-09-01

Contributors

author

Marek Tokarz