Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning / Eniko Nemeth and Károly Bibok.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Németh T., Enikő, 1964- author.

Bibok, Károly, author.

Conference Name:

International Pragmatics Conference (7th : 2000 : Budapest, Hungary)

Series:

Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; Volume 8.

Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface Series ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics--Congresses.

Pragmatics.

Semantics--Congresses.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 329 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Elsevier, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: towards the new linguistic discipline of lexical pragmatics, E. Nemeth T., K. Bibok

Two case studies in lexical pragmatics, R. Blutner, T. Solstad

On the scales and implicatures of even, I. Boguslavsky

The flexibility of inference in triggers for inferable entities: evidence for an interpretability constraint, S.A. Cote

In defence of monosemy, T. Fretheim

Pragmatics and the flexibility of theoretical terms in linguistics - two case studies, A. Kertesz

The development of the grounding predication - epistemic modals and cognitive predicates, P. Pelyvas

What is polysemy? A survey of current research and results, G. Petho

Interpreting morphologically complex lexemes revisited, T. Prcic

Cultural constraints on meaning extension - derivational relations between actions and happenings, R. Rozina

The communicative function of the Hungarian adverbial marker majd 'later on, some time', I. Vask

How the lexicon and context interact in the meaning construction of utterances, K. Bibok, E. Nemeth T.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Papers originally presented at the 7th International Pragmatics Conference held in Budapest, Hungary, July 9-14, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780585474267

0585474265

OCLC:

53333810

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9780585474267 DOI