This article discusses three claims of the Graded Salience Hypothesis presented in Rachel
Giora's book On our mind. It is argued that these claims may give second language …

The journal ''Intercultural Pragmatics''has been founded to address the challenges of a new
era. We live in an age of globalization that is characterized by rapid changes in every field of …

Minden szakterületnek megvannak a maga örökzöld témái. Az ebben a dolgozatban vizsgált
nyelvi jelenségcsoportot és a mögötte álló kognitív mechanizmust már csak azért is bátran–s …

This chapter seeks answer to the following questions: How does bilingualism modify the
concept-word symbiosis? How does the meaning structure (coresense, word-specific …

After an overview of previous approaches to the relation between grammar and pragmatics
we define grammar and pragmatics as two separate but not independent components of the …

Abstract Language use and communication cannot be equated entirely, since verbal
communication is not the only form of language use. There are several other kinds of …

Kecskes: Professor Giora, in your recent papers and book (1997, 1999, 2003) you o¤ er an
alternative to the interactionist view that assumes the priority of context and selective …

The purpose of this study is to draw on the conceptual blending hypothesis from the socio-
cognitive approach to investigate the conceptually equivalent translation written in L2 …

In spite of their differences, Two-level Conceptual Semantics, Generative Lexicon Theory
and Relevance Theory also have similarities with respect to treatment of the relation of word …

The goal of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it explains the relevance of the Graded Salience
Hypothesis (Giora 1997; 2003; Kecskés 2001) to pragmatics research, arguing that although …