Ambiguities we live by: Towards a pragmatics of polysemy

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-20

  Nerlich, Brigitte ^a   Clarke, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Cognitive processing; Communicational functions; Polysemy; Shared meaning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002170549     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00132-0     Document Type: Article

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