caa a22 4500 388043024 CHVBK 20180307125027.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199811 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1360674300000861 doi S1360674300000861 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1360674300000861 Nicolle Steve Middlesex University Be going to and will: a monosemous account [Elektronische Daten] [Steve Nicolle] This paper provides an account of be going to and will within the framework of Relevance Theory (Sperber & Wilson, 1986, 1995). Because of the range of interpretations derived from the use of these expressions in different contexts, many previous accounts have characterized them as polysemous. This polysemy has been attributed to semantic retention, whereby both old (lexical) and new (grammaticalized) meanings are recovered in certain contexts. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate: (i) that although be going to does exhibit semantic retention, in a relevance-theoretic framework this does not entail polysemy, and (ii) that interpretations of will previously attributed to semantic retention are, in fact, pragmatically derived, and hence will is also monosemous. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 English Language and Linguistics Cambridge University Press 2/2(1998-11), 223-244 1360-6743 2:2<223 1998 2 ELL https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674300000861 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674300000861 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nicolle Steve Middlesex University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- English Language and Linguistics Cambridge University Press 2/2(1998-11), 223-244 1360-6743 2:2<223 1998 2 ELL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge