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Publication details [#14073]

Fredsted, Elin. 1998. On semantic and pragmatic ambiguity. Kresten Nordentoft in memoriam. Journal of Pragmatics 30 (5) : 527–541.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | conversational implicature | indirect expression

Language as a subject

Danish | German | Greek, Ancient | Latin

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper analyzes indirect and ambiguous language usage. Grice's theory of conversational implicature and Kierkegaard's concept of indirect communication are employed in the description and explanation of various combinations of semantic and pragmatic unequivocality and ambiguity.