Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers

Meaning seems to shift from context to context; how do we know when someone says "grab a chair" that an ottoman or orange crate will do, but when someone says "let''s buy a chair," they won''t? In Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers, Kronenfeld offers a theory that explains both the usefulness of language''s variability of reference and the mechanisms which enable us to understand each other in spi...