Lexical pragmatics, ad hoc concepts and metaphor: A Relevance Theory perspective

Italian Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 153-180

  Carston, Robyn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ad hoc concepts; Explicature; Lexical pragmatics; Lexical semantics; Relevance Theory; Utterance understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053220019     PISSN: 11202726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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