6533b7d2fe1ef96bd125e029

RESEARCH PRODUCT

Overt and hidden complexity – Two types of complexity and their implications

Walter Bisang

subject

Cognitive scienceCommunicationLinguistic sequence complexitybusiness.industryComputer sciencePerspective (graphical)PragmaticsbusinessLinguisticsFocus (linguistics)

description

AbstractLinguistic 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.

https://doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2014-0009