(Ebook) Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning, Volume 8 (Current Research in the Semantics Pragmatics Interface) by Eniko Nemeth T., Karoly Bibok ISBN 9780080439716, 9780585474267, 0080439713, 0585474265

(Ebook) Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning, Volume 8 (Current Research in the Semantics Pragmatics Interface) by Eniko Nemeth T., Karoly Bibok ISBN 9780080439716, 9780585474267, 0080439713, 0585474265

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.