Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use Levshina Natalia
Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use Levshina Natalia All living beings try to save effort, and humans are no exception. It presents a new theory of 'communicative efficiency', the…
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Communicative Efficiency: Language Structure and Use Levshina Natalia
All living beings try to save effort, and humans are no exception. It presents a new theory of 'communicative efficiency', the idea that language is designed to be as efficient as possible, as a system of communication. This groundbreaking book shows how we save time and energy during communication by unconsciously making efficient choices in grammar, lexicon and phonology.
The author's unique interdisciplinary expertise allows her to provide rich evidence from a broad range of language sciences. The new framework accounts for the diverse manifestations of communicative efficiency across a typologically broad range of languages, using various corpus-based and statistical approaches to explain speakers' bias towards efficiency. She integrates diverse insights from over a hundred years of research into this comprehensible new theory, which she presents step-by-step in clear and accessible