TY - JOUR
T1 - Conveying indirect reservations through discursive redundancy
AU - Weizman, Elda
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - This paper proposes a definition of redundancy whereby if a discourse pattern P1 is used to achieve speaker's meaning S, and discourse patterns P2 may equally achieve speaker's meaning S, then the use of both P1 and P2 in a given textual environment will be conceived of as redundant. Focusing on discourse patterns implying reservations in the written press in French and in Hebrew, it postulates two types of redundancy: conventional redundancy, whereby the identification of co-textual cues relies on a conventional combination, and non-conventional redundancy, which includes various combinations of patterns, supplemented by context-dependent explicitations. The textual analysis distinguishes between redundant and non-redundant patterns of reservations, and indicates a tendency towards redundancy in both languages, with an inclination towards a higher degree of informativeness in Hebrew. Findings are interpreted in terms of Gricean Cooperative Principle as well as the postulate of Quantity Scales, previously argued for by the author.
AB - This paper proposes a definition of redundancy whereby if a discourse pattern P1 is used to achieve speaker's meaning S, and discourse patterns P2 may equally achieve speaker's meaning S, then the use of both P1 and P2 in a given textual environment will be conceived of as redundant. Focusing on discourse patterns implying reservations in the written press in French and in Hebrew, it postulates two types of redundancy: conventional redundancy, whereby the identification of co-textual cues relies on a conventional combination, and non-conventional redundancy, which includes various combinations of patterns, supplemented by context-dependent explicitations. The textual analysis distinguishes between redundant and non-redundant patterns of reservations, and indicates a tendency towards redundancy in both languages, with an inclination towards a higher degree of informativeness in Hebrew. Findings are interpreted in terms of Gricean Cooperative Principle as well as the postulate of Quantity Scales, previously argued for by the author.
KW - Cooperative Principle
KW - Implicature
KW - Informativeness
KW - Irony
KW - Redundancy
KW - Reservations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78751706624&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.langsci.2010.10.006
DO - 10.1016/j.langsci.2010.10.006
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AN - SCOPUS:78751706624
SN - 0388-0001
VL - 33
SP - 295
EP - 304
JO - Language Sciences
JF - Language Sciences
IS - 2
ER -