@article{oai:glim-re.repo.nii.ac.jp:00001463, author = {井門, 亮 and Ido, Ryo}, issue = {10}, journal = {言語 文化 社会, Language, Culture and Society}, month = {Mar}, note = {application/pdf, Recent approach to lexical pragmatics within the framework of relevance theory, such as Wilson (2004) and Wilson and Carston (2007), claims that the concept linguistically encoded by word may be pragmatically adjusted (i. e. lexical broadening or narrowing) and construct ad hoc concept as a part of the pragmatic process of interpreting the speakerʼ s intended meaning. This inferential process which is guided by the principle of relevance is called ad hoc concept construction. It sheds new lights not only on the recovery of the explicature of the utterance, but also on the understanding of figures of speech such as metaphor. In her series of analysis of idiom, Vega Moreno (2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007) takes this idea of ad hoc concept one step further by expanding its applicable scope from word level to phrase level, and argues that during the comprehension process of utterance containing an idiom, ad hoc concept is constructed at phrase level. Although I acknowledge the contribution of her theory in the field of lexical pragmatics, there seems at least some examples of idioms which her account cannot deal with. In this paper, after reviewing Vega Moreno (2007), I will make some remarks on her approach, and offer possible alternatives to it as well as some suggestions for further research on idioms using the framework of ad hoc concept.}, pages = {1--15}, title = {イディオム解釈とアドホック概念}, year = {2012}, yomi = {イド, リョウ} }