Semantics
John I. Saeed(Author)
Blackwell Publishers
Published on 4. November 1996
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-631-20034-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is a general introduction to semantics for readers new to the subject. The book is designed to be accessible to undergraduate students of language and linguistics, as well as the general reader. The aim of the book is to introduce some of the central areas of investigation in the field, and to enable the reader to proceed into the more specialized and technical literature. The book is organized into three parts: the first is concerned with the place of semantics within linguistics and its relationship to other disciplines, such as philosophy and psychology, which share some of the same interests. Part two is the main part of the book, and introduces central topics in the description of word and sentence meaning. Part three reviews three important current theoretical approaches to semantics. Each chapter contains exercises to familiarize the reader with the practice of semantic description.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
references, index
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 171 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-20034-5 (9780631200345)
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Content
Part 1 Preliminaries: semantics in linguistics; reference. Part 2 Semantic description; word meaning. sentence relations and truth; sentence meaning; situations; sentence meaning; particupants; context and inference; functions of language - speech as action. Part 3 Theoretical approaches: meaning components; formal semantics; cognitive semantics.