Front matter -- Setting the scene -- Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overview / Nerlich, Brigitte / Clarke, David D. -- Cognitive models of polysemy / Taylor, John R. -- Polysemy: past and present / Nerlich, Brigitte -- Cognitive approaches -- Polysemy and conceptual blending / Fauconnier, Gilles / Turner, Mark -- Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over* / Tyler, Andrea / Evans, Vyvyan -- Polysemy as flexible meaning: experiments with English get and Finnish pitää / Raukko, Jarno -- Metonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extension / Seto, Ken-ichi -- Synchrony/diachrony approaches -- Polysemy in derivational affixes / Lehrer, Adrienne -- The role of links and/or qualia in modifier-head constructions / Warren, Beatrice -- Polysemy and bleaching / Aitchison, Jean / Lewis, Diana M. -- Polysemy in the lexicon and in discourse / Blank, Andreas -- Psycholinguistic approaches -- Irony in conversation: salience, role, and context effects / Giora, Rachel / Gur, Inbal -- Young children's and adults' use of figurative language: how important are cultural and linguistic influences? / Dowker, Ann -- Emerging patterns and evolving polysemies: the acquisition of get between four and ten years / Nerlich, Brigitte / Todd, Zazie / Clarke, David D. -- Computational approaches -- "I don't believe in word senses" / Kilgarriff, Adam -- Senses and texts / Wilks, Yorick -- Index |