{"product_id":"9780080439716","title":"Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning","description":"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.","brand":"Eniko Nemeth, Karoly Bibok","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45719337926974,"sku":"9780080439716","price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780080439716_6575cf90-02e7-4f55-ac58-bd716e381cf4.jpg?v=1707213088","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780080439716","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}