Patricia Kolaiti
List of John Benjamins publications for which Patricia Kolaiti plays a role.
Articles
2017 Chapter 7. Lexical pragmatics and implicit communication Implicitness: From lexis to discourse, Cap, Piotr and Marta Dynel (eds.), pp. 147–176 | Chapter
In this paper, we consider what is implicitly communicated when the linguistically-specified (encoded) meaning of a word or phrase is modified in use. Well-studied examples of such modification include lexical narrowing, approximation and metaphorical extension. A striking feature of much… read more
2014 Text and contextual information retrieval: A relevance-theoretic approach to cohesion Pragmatics 24:1, pp. 63–81 | Article
This paper argues for a pragmatically based reconsideration of cohesion-based approaches to information retrieval during comprehension, suggesting that a Relevance-based approach is preferable on both descriptive and explanatory grounds. It outlines a number of descriptive and explanatory problems… read more