Thoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are
fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction …

Relevance theory may be seen as an attempt to work out in detail one of Grice's central
claims: that an essential feature of most human communication is the expression and …

Polysemy, understood as instances of a single linguistic expression having multiple related
senses, is not a homogenous phenomenon. There are regular (apparently, rule‐based) …

Lexical Pragmatics is a research field that tries to give a systematic and explanatory account
of pragmatic phenomena that are connected with the semantic underspecification of lexical …

The goal of lexical pragmatics is to explain how linguistically specified ('literal') word
meanings are modified in use. While lexical-pragmatic processes such as narrowing …

Creativity and Convention Page 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company Creativity and
Convention The pragmatics of everyday figurative speech Rosa E. Vega Moreno Page 2 …

In this chapter, I set out to develop some ideas about the way in which pragmatics
contributes to explicit communication and, in the process, respond to a range of comments …

Polysemy is characterized as the phenomenon whereby a single word form is associated
with two or several related senses. It is distinguished from monosemy, where one word form …

Ostensive communication, the paradigm case of which is verbal communication, is the
domain of a dedicated cognitive system, according to Relevance Theory (RT). This …

In the view of Katz and Fodor (1963: 176) the scope of a language description covers the
knowledge of a fluent speaker “about the structure of his language that enables him to use …