Németh Enikő T., Bibok Károly (Editors). Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning

Elsevier, 2001. — xii, 329 p. — (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface). — ISBN: 0-08-043971-3.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.Introduction: Towards the New Linguistic Disciplineof Lexical Pragmatics
Two Case Studies in Lexical Pragmatics
On the Scales and Implicatures of even
The Flexibility of Inference in Triggers for Inferable Entities: Evidence for an Interpretability Constraint
In Defence of Monosemy
Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Theoretical Terms in Linguistics:Two Case Studies
The Development of the Grounding Predication: Epistemic Modals and Cognitive Predicates
What is Polysemy? - A Survey of Current Research and Results
Interpreting Morphologically Complex Lexemes Revisited
Cultural Constraints on Meaning Extension: Derivational Relations between Actions and Happenings
The Communicative Function of the Hungarian Adverbial Marker majd 'later on, some time'
How the Lexicon and Context Interact in the Meaning Construction of Utterances