Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use: Bridging Construction Grammar and Relevance Theory

 One  of the key challenges in linguistics is to account for the link between  linguistic knowledge and our use of language in a way that is both  descriptively accurate and cognitively plausible. This pioneering book  addresses these challenges by combining insights from Construction  Grammar and Relevance Theory, two influential approaches which until now  have been considered incompatible. After a clear and detailed  presentation of both theories, the author demonstrates that their  integration is possible, and explains why this integration is necessary,  in order to understand exactly how meaning comes about. A new  theoretical model is offered that provides ground-breaking insights into  the semantics-pragmatic interface, and addresses a variety of topics  including the nature of lexical and grammatical concepts, procedural  meaning, coercion and idiom processing. This title is part of the Flip  it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our  website Cambridge Core for details.