Linguistic Status of Markedness and Its Defining Criteria

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10.2991/emehss-18.2018.80How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Markedness, Defining Criteria.

Abstract

The article first addresses the theoretical prerequisites, and then conceptualizes markedness itself by exhibiting different linguistic concepts of markedness, finally, it elucidates the divergent criteria to define markedness, which produces a valid, feasible basis and theoretical rationale for the further study. To elaborate, it presents traditional view of markedness in terms of complexity principle and contextual neutralization as exemplified by phonemic variants, paradigmatic morphemes, semantic and pragmatic oppositions. Generative view of markedness has been demonstrated in typological, psycholinguistic and cognitive details. Besides, great efforts have been exerted to fully illustrate the defining criteria of markedness with top priority to generative and functionalistic interpretations.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jianhong Yang
PY  - 2018/03
DA  - 2018/03
TI  - Linguistic Status of Markedness and Its Defining Criteria
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Economics and Management, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences (EMEHSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 400
EP  - 406
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/emehss-18.2018.80
DO  - 10.2991/emehss-18.2018.80
ID  - Yang2018/03
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