Lexical Pragmatics

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Neisser, U. (ed). 1987. Concepts and Conceptual Development, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Nicolle, S. & Clark, B. 1999. Experimental pragmatics and what is said: A response to Gibbs and Moise. Cognition 69, 337-354. (PDF)

Nogales, P. 1999. Metaphorically Speaking. CSLI/Cambridge University Press, Stanford.

Noh, E-J.  2000. Metarepresentation: A Relevance Theory Approach.  Revised version of Noh (1998). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Noveck, I. A., Bianco, M. & Castry, A. 2001. The costs and benefits of metaphor. Metaphor and Symbol, 16(1&2), 109-121. (PDF)

Nunberg, G. 1978. The Pragmatics of Reference. Indiana University Linguistics Club, Bloomington.

Nunberg, G. 1995. Transfers of Meaning. Journal of Semantics 12, 109-132.

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