Description:Contains most of the papers given at an international workshop at the University of Munster in May 1997. The text addresses questions of lexical semantics from the pragmatic perspective of a corpus-oriented approach as well as from the model-oriented perspective of sign theoretic linguistics. Within the corpus-oriented approach, the idea that single words can no longer be considered to be the lexical unit is discussed. Other models of contrastive lexical semantics are also covered: the two-level model; the structural model; a model of contrastive idiom analysis; and a computerlinguistic model.