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Publication details [#14273]

Nerlich, Brigitte and David D. Clarke. 2001. Ambiguities we live by: Towards a pragmatics of polysemy. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (1) : 1–20.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
ambiguity | cognitive process | communicative function | meaning | polysemy | relevance
Language as a subject
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

A case is made for contextualized research into the use and understanding of polysemous words.