Polysemy

Brigitte Nerlich is Senior Research Officer at the University of Nottingham, UK.Zazie Todd is Lecturer at Leeds University, UK.David D. Clarke is Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK.Vimala Herman is Reader at the University of Nottingham, UK.

• Setting the scene Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overviewBrigitte Nerlich and David D. ClarkeCognitive models of polysemyJohn R. Taylor Polysemy: past and presentBrigitte Nerlich Cognitive approachesPolysemy and conceptual blendingGilles Fauconnier and Mark TurnerReconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of overAndrea Tyler and Vyvyan EvansPolysemy as flexible meaning: experiments with English get and Finnish pitääJarno RaukkoMetonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extensionKen-ichi Seto Synchrony/diachrony approachesPolysemy in derivational affixesAdrienne LehrerThe role of links and/or qualia in modifier-head constructionsBeatrice WarrenPolysemy and bleachingJean Aitchison and Diana M. LewisPolysemy in the lexicon and in discourseAndreas Blank Psycholinguistic approaches Irony in conversation: salience, role, and context effectsRachel Giora and Inbal GurYoung children's and adults' use of figurative language: how important are cultural and linguistic influences?Ann Dowker Emerging patterns and evolving polysemies: the acquisition of get between four and ten yearsBrigitte Nerlich, Zazie Todd and David D. Clarke Computational approaches"I don't believe in word senses"Adam Kilgarriff Senses and textsYorick Wilks

"To end on a personal note, I hope that Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language will provoke a number of discussions in related fields, leading to a number of interesting findings and the development of polysemy research in the future."Yoshikata Shibuya in: Cognitive Linguistics 4/2007