Coherence, Consensus and Language  

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Lehrer, Keith

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics and Philosophy=> ada di SpringerLink 1997(vol.1) - Mutakhir; JSTOR vol. 7 no. 1 (Feb. 1984), page 43-56.

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Coherence is a defining feature of a communal language. The relevant kind of coherence is the simplest amalgamation of linguistic information speakers possess. Such simplicity can be represented mathematically as a weighted average of the information aggregated. Coherence, then, is a mathematically simple form of amalgamation of information. When the information is distributed throughout a speech community, the amalgamation represents an implicit consensus. The primary contribution of coherence to a theory of language is to articulate what constitutes a communal language when, in fact, the people belonging to the community often express themselves in quite idiosyncratic idiolects. Beneath the surface of eccentric and idiosyncratic speech, coherence lies hidden. The object of this paper is to explain in what way that coherence or consensus exists and how it can account for and justify the assumption of a communal language.

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