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Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning
Author(s): Eniko Nemeth (Author), Károly Bibok (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: October 17, 2001
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 344 pages
- ISBN-10: 0080439713
- ISBN-13: 9780080439716
Book Description
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.
