Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning /

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

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 ex...

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Superior document:Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; 8
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International Pragmatics Conference
VerfasserIn:
Nemeth, Eniko,
Bibok, Károly,
TeilnehmendeR:
Bibok, Károly,
International Pragmatics Conference (7th : 2000 : Budapest, Hungary)
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.
Year of Publication:2001
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 329 p. ); ill. ;
Notes:Papers originally presented at the 7th International Pragmatics Conference held in Budapest, Hungary, July 9-14, 2000.
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Table of 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.

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