Idioms in English: A Pragmatic Analysis

adverb ambiguous analysis anaphoric Chafe co-operative principle component concatenation concept considered constituents context conventional conversational implicatures defined definition deictic deictic expressions deixis dictionary elements English entailments establish example fact flouting the maxim framework Fraser frozenness grammar Gricean maxims H should think Häusermann hearer Hockett idiom list idiomatic expressions idioms in conversation illocutionary act illocutionary force implicates indirect speech acts Katz and Postal Kempson kick the bucket language lexemes lexemic idioms lexical items linguistic literal counterpart literal meaning logical presupposition Makkai Maxim of Quantity metaphor morphemes Newmeyer notion participants perlocutionary act person idiom phrasal compounds phrasal verbs phraseological unit polylexemic polysemy possible pragmatic prepositional verbs presupposes presuppositions problem proposition reference Reichstein relevant rules Sadock Searle Searle's sememic sense sentence social speaker's meaning specific structure submaxim subsense syntactic tense term idiom tion transformational deficiencies truth-conditional semantics truth-value semantics usage utterance Volapük Weinreich words