関連情報

目次

Introduction

Types of Ambiguity in Natural Language

Semantic and Structural Overlap in Language

Types of Ambiguity in Natural Language

Lexical Ambiguity

Syntactic Ambiguity

Surface Structural Ambiguity in Syntax

Underlying Structural Ambiguity in Syntax

Functional Roles and Syntactic Structure

Volitional and Non-volitional，or By Accident or By Intention?

Intonation and Syntactic Ambiguity

Psycholinguistic Studies of Ambiguity

Comprehension and Processing of Ambiguity

Comprehension and Processing of Lexical Ambiguity

Ambiguities as Multiple Entries in the Mental Dictionary

Comprehension and Processing of Syntactic Ambiguity

Parsing Strategies

Feature Assignment

Ambiguous Words and Sentences in Context

Ambiguity in Discourse Acts

Indirect Speech Acts

Irony and Sarcasm as Discourse Ambiguity

Ambiguity in Discourse Intention

Idioms and Metaphors

Idioms

Metaphors

Production of Ambiguity

Ambiguity as Verbal Humor

Punning and Joking

Children's Punning and Word Play

Riddles

Ambiguity in the Language of Advertising

Lexical Ambiguity Based on Product Name

General Lexical Ambiguity

Lexical Ambiguity Based on Idiom

Lexical Ambiguity Based on Double-Entendre,or Lex-Sex

Lexical Ambiguity Based on Phonological or Orthographical Distortion

Lexical Ambiguity Resolved by Pictorial Context

Newspaper Headlines

Children's Appreciation of Ambiguity:

A Metalinguistic Skill

Children's Riddles

Conclusion

Practice Exercises

Lexical Ambiguity

Surface Structure Ambiguity

Deep Structure Ambiguity

More Practice Exercises

Answers

Answers to “Practice Exercise”

Answers to “More Practice Exercise”



Bibliography



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著者紹介

Joseph F. Kess

1943年アメリカ，オハイオ州クリーブランドに生まれる。1967年ハワイ大学でPh.Dを取得し，カナダに移住，以後ブリティッシュ・コロンビア州のヴィクトリア大学で教え，今日に到る。現在同大学言語学部長。著書に『Psycholinguistics』(Academic press), Schmidt R.との共著で，『Television Advertising and Televangelism』(John Benjamins Publishers)など。



西光 義弘(にしみつ よしひろ)

1947年広島県呉市生まれ。大阪外国語大学及び大学院(修士)を終え，ハワイ大学研究員を経て現在，神戸大学助教授。共著に『生成音韻論』(英宝社)共訳に『言語のルーツ』(大修館）など。