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Structural Ambiguity in English 2 Volume Set

by Dallin D. Oaks

How English structure creates ambiguity

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How English structure creates ambiguity

Dallin D. Oaks examines structural ambiguity as a feature that can be deliberately produced, shifting attention from resolving unclear language to identifying the English structures that make multiple readings possible. The two-volume set organizes these features into a systematic inventory, describing their distinct behaviors and illustrating them with authentic examples. Its subject connects linguistic structure with practical uses of wordplay, including advertising, comedy and marketing, while also touching on usage, pragmatics, communication, natural language processing and editing. The result is a reference-oriented study of how particular language patterns can support more than one interpretation.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Researchers and academics studying English linguistics, semantics or pragmatics
  • Readers interested in ambiguity and wordplay in advertising, comedy or marketing
  • Those working in editing, communication or natural language processing

Themes

Structural ambiguityEnglish language structureWordplayPragmatics and communicationAdvertising and humor

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Book overview

Structural Ambiguity in English is a major new scholarly work that provides an innovative and accessible linguistic description of those features of the language that can be exploited to generate structural ambiguities.

Most ambiguity scholarship is concerned with disambiguation-the process of making what is ambiguous clear. This book takes the opposite approach as it focuses on describing the features in the English language that may contribute towards the creation of structural ambiguities, which form the core of some of the best word-plays found in advertising, comedy and marketing.

Oaks utilizes a systematic and comprehensive inventory approach that identifies individual elements in the language and their distinctive behaviors that can be manipulated in the deliberate creation of structural ambiguities. In doing so he also provides authentic examples to illustrate the concepts he presents.

This book will appeal to researchers and academics interested in the structure of the English language, usage, pragmatics, communication, natural language processing, editing, and humor studies as well as those in marketing, advertising, or humor writing.

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