Setting the scene

Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overview
Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke

Cognitive models of polysemy
John R. Taylor

Polysemy: past and present
Brigitte Nerlich

Cognitive approaches

Polysemy and conceptual blending
Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner

Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over
Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans

Polysemy as flexible meaning: experiments with English get and Finnish pitää
Jarno Raukko

Metonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extension
Ken-ichi Seto

Synchrony/diachrony approaches

Polysemy in derivational affixes
Adrienne Lehrer

The role of links and/or qualia in modifier-head constructions
Beatrice Warren

Polysemy and bleaching
Jean Aitchison and Diana M. Lewis

Polysemy in the lexicon and in discourse
Andreas Blank

Psycholinguistic approaches

Irony in conversation: salience, role, and context effects
Rachel Giora and Inbal Gur

Young children’s and adults’ use of figurative language: how important are cultural and linguistic influences?
Ann Dowker

Emerging patterns and evolving polysemies: the acquisition of get between four and ten years
Brigitte Nerlich, Zazie Todd and David D. Clarke

Computational approaches

‘I don’t believe in word senses’
Adam Kilgarriff

Senses and texts
Yorick Wilks

Brigitte Nerlich is Senior Research Officer at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Zazie Todd is Lecturer at Leeds University, UK.
David D. Clarke is Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Vimala Herman is Reader at the University of Nottingham, UK.