Pragmatics And The Flexibility Of Word Meaning Volume 8 Current Research In The Semantics Pragmatics Interface 1st Edition Eniko Nemeth T by Eniko Nemeth T., Karoly Bibok 9780080439716, 9780585474267, 0080439713, 0585474265 instant download after payment.

Recently, the investigation of word meaning in utterances has connected two different fields: lexical semantics and pragmatics. A new linguistic discipline, namely lexical pragmatics, is emerging. The eleven papers of the present book constitute a unit in the sense that they have a common aim: to explore the interaction between lexical semantics and pragmatics. The authors examine phenomena such as productive sense extension, regular polysemy, multifunctionality, implicit arguments and predicates, and non-typical anaphoric pronouns, on the basis of linguistic data, for instance, from English, Norwegian, Russian, and Hungarian, as well as using a great variety of frameworks (optimality framework, two-level semantics, the theory of generative lexicon, cognitive grammar, Gricean theory, and relevance theory.