Polysemy: Pragmatics and sense conventions

IF 1.8 3区 心理学 Q1 LINGUISTICS
Mind & Language Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI:10.1111/mila.12329
R. Carston
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Correspondence Robyn Carston, Department of Linguistics, University College London, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF, UK. Email: robyn.carston@ucl.ac.uk Polysemy, understood as instances of a single linguistic expression having multiple related senses, is not a homogenous phenomenon. There are regular (apparently, rule-based) cases and irregular (resemblancebased) cases, which have different processing profiles. Although a primary source of polysemy is pragmatic inference, at least some cases become conventionalised and linguistically encoded. Three main issues are discussed: (a) the key differences between regular and irregular cases and the role, if any, of a “core meaning”; (b) the distinction between pragmatic polysemy and semantic polysemy; and (c) the role of syntactic meaning in both generating and constraining polysemy.
一词多义:语用学与意义惯例
Robyn Carston,伦敦大学学院语言学系,Chandler House,2 Wakefield Street,London WC1N 1PF,英国。电子邮件:robyn.carston@ucl.ac.uk一词多义被理解为具有多种相关意义的单一语言表达的实例,并不是一种同质现象。有规则的(显然是基于规则的)案例和不规则的(基于相似性的)案例,它们具有不同的处理配置文件。尽管一词多义的主要来源是语用推理,但至少有些情况是惯例化的和语言编码的。讨论了三个主要问题:(a)正常和非正常案件之间的主要区别以及“核心含义”的作用(如果有的话);(b) 语用多义与语义多义的区别;句法意义在多义词生成和制约中的作用。
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