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from Part II - Pragmatics and Linguistic Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2019
In this chapter, Thorstein Fretheim discusses a Norwegian modal adverb, gjerne, which he maintains is polysemous, in that it has two related meanings, both of which are conventionalised and stored in the lexicon. This case of polysemy seems to be different from the polysemy of open-class words (nouns, verbs, adjectives), which is typically explained in relevance-theoretic terms as involving pragmatic adjustments of an encoded concept. Fretheim argues that the two meanings of gjerne are better analysed as encoded procedures, so as constraining the hearer’s interpretation process rather than contributing a concept to that interpretation.
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