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Overt and hidden complexity – Two types of complexity and their implications
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Walter Bisang
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July 21, 2014
Abstract
Linguistic complexity is the result of the two motivations of explicitness and economy. Most approaches focus on the exlpicitness side of complexity (overt complexity) but there is also an explicitness-oriented side to complexity (hidden complexity). The aim of the paper is to introduce hidden complexity as the neglected side of complexity and to discuss the issues of trade-offs, global complexity and equal complexity from a more encompassing perspective that integrates overt and hidden complexity.
Keywords: hidden complexity; competing motivations; economy vs. explicitness; pragmatics; languages of East and mainland Southeast Asia
Received: 2014-1-14
Revised: 2014-6-16
Accepted: 2014-6-16
Published Online: 2014-7-21
©2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
hidden complexity;
competing motivations;
economy vs. explicitness;
pragmatics;
languages of East and mainland Southeast Asia
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