Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Words and Meanings: The Need for a New Approach -- 2 What Is a Word? -- 3 Do Word Meanings Exist? -- 4 Prototypes and Norms -- 5 Contextual Dependency and Lexical Sets -- 6 Norms Change over Time -- 7 Three Types of Alternation -- 8 Exploitations -- 9 Intertextuality: Literature and the Exploitation of Norms -- 10 Word and Pattern Meaning: A Complex Linguistic Gestalt -- 11 Meaning, Philosophy of Language, and Anthropology -- 12 The Role of the Lexicon in Linguistic Theory -- 13 The Broader Picture -- Notes -- References -- Index.