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Linguistic semantics : an introduction

By: Lyons, JohnMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995Description: xvi, 376 p. : illustrationsISBN: 0521433029 ; 9780521433020 ; 0521438772 ; 9780521438773Subject(s): Semantics | LinguisticDDC classification: 401.43

Contents:

1. Metalinguistic preliminaries -- 2. Words as meaningful units -- 3. Defining the meaning of words -- 4. structural approach -- 5. Meaningful and meaningless sentences -- 6. Sentence-meaning and propositional content -- 7. formalization of sentence-meaning -- 8. Speech acts and illocutionary force -- 9. Text and discourse; context and co-text -- 10. subjectivity of utterance.

Summary: Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons' important textbook Language, Meaning and Context (1981). While preserving the general structure of the earlier book, the author has substantially expanded its scope to introduce several topics that were not previously discussed, and to take account of new developments in linguistic semantics over the past decade. The resulting work is an invaluable guide to the subject, offering clarifications of its specialized terms and explaining its relationship to formal and philosophical and to contemporary semantics and pragmatics. With its clear and accessible style it will appeal to a wide student readership. Sir John Lyons is one of the most important and internationally renowned contributors to the study of linguistics. His many publications include his Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (1968) and Semantics (1977).

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1. Metalinguistic preliminaries --
2. Words as meaningful units --
3. Defining the meaning of words --
4. structural approach --
5. Meaningful and meaningless sentences --
6. Sentence-meaning and propositional content --
7. formalization of sentence-meaning --
8. Speech acts and illocutionary force --
9. Text and discourse; context and co-text --
10. subjectivity of utterance.

Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons' important textbook Language, Meaning and Context (1981). While preserving the general structure of the earlier book, the author has substantially expanded its scope to introduce several topics that were not previously discussed, and to take account of new developments in linguistic semantics over the past decade. The resulting work is an invaluable guide to the subject, offering clarifications of its specialized terms and explaining its relationship to formal and philosophical and to contemporary semantics and pragmatics. With its clear and accessible style it will appeal to a wide student readership. Sir John Lyons is one of the most important and internationally renowned contributors to the study of linguistics. His many publications include his Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (1968) and Semantics (1977).

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