Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface): 8 - Hardcover

Nemeth, Eniko; Bibok, Károly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0080439713 ISBN 13: 9780080439716

Publisher: Brassey's (UK) Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brassey's (UK) Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0080439713
• ISBN 13: 9780080439716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344