Chapter 7. Idioms, transparency and pragmatic inference

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Human creative cognition and selective processing 5
6. Chapter 2. Relevance Theory 29
7. Chapter 3. Metaphor, interaction and property attribution 53
8. Chapter 4. Relevance Theory and metaphor interpretation 87
9. Chapter 5. Relevance Theory and cognitive approaches to metaphor 121
10. Chapter 6. Analysability in idiom comprehension 143
11. Chapter 7. Idioms, transparency and pragmatic inference 177
12. Chapter 8. Creativity and convention beyond figurative speech 217
13. Conclusion 229
14. References 231
15. Index 245