Lexical Pragmatics and Pragmatical Enrichment of Polysemy
The study on pragmatical enrichment of polysemy is very important in the field of lexical pragmatics. In the study of ordinary communication, we can find that the messages conveyed by the vocabulary are not only the superficial meaning of the word itself, but also influenced or directed by the pragmatical intention and contextual background. The exact meaning of a polysemy is decided by the specific context. On the ground of the theories of lexical pragmatics illustrated by Professor Blutner and Professor Wilson, this paper tries to probe that the understanding of the exact meaning of a polysemy in some specific context is, exactly, the process of pragmatic broadening or narrowing of its prototypical meaning so as to give prominence to the significance of the study of polysemy in the field of lexical pragmatics.