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Title: Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning

Authors: Eniko Nemeth T. & Karoly Bibok

Series: Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface, 8

Publisher: Elsevier, Oxford; December 2001

Level: Specialized Editorial

Fields: Pragmatics - Semantics / Lexical semantics

Keywords: word meaning, polysemy, sense extension, anaphoric pronouns, implicit arguments

ISBN: 0080439713, English, Hardcover, 342 pages

Publisher's Abstract:

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).

Table of Contents

1	Introduction: towards the new linguistic discipline of lexical pragmatics.	E. Németh T., K. Bibok
2	Two case studies in lexical pragmatics	R. Blutner, T. Solstad
3	On the scales and implicatures of even	I. Boguslavsky
4	The flexibility of inference in triggers for inferable entities: evidence for an interpretability constraint	S.A. Cote
5	In defence of monosemy	T. Fretheim
6	Pragmatics and the flexibility of theoretical terms in linguistics: two case studies	A. Kertész
7	The development of the grounding predication: epistemic modals and cognitive predicates	P. Pelyvás
8	What is polysemy? - A survey of current research and results	G. Pethö
9	Interpreting morphologically complex lexemes revisited	T. Prcic
10	Cultural constraints on meaning extension: derivational relations between actions and happenings	R. Rozina
11	The communicative function of the Hungarian adverbial marker majd 'later on, some time'	I. Vaskó
12	How the lexicon and context interact in the meaning construction of utterances	K. Bibok, E. Németh T

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T., Eniko Nemeth & Karoly Bibok. 2001. Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning. Oxford: Elsevier.

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