Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning

By Eniko Nemeth

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080439713
• ISBN13: 9780080439716
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.2" x 6.1"