Strategies of Ambiguity

by Angelika Zirker and Matthias Bauer

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume contributes to overcoming this alternative by focusing on strategies of ambiguity (and the strategic avoidance of ambiguity) both at the production and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032286911
• ISBN13: 9781032286914
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"