Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics

✍ Scribed by D. Alan Cruse

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 437
• Series: Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
• Edition: illustrated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language. It covers topics normally considered to fall under pragmatics, as well as semantic matters. The author seeks, above all, to display and to explain the richness and subtlety of meaning, and to that end provides abundant examples throughout the text. Numerous exercises (and suggested answers) are provided at every stage.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Contents
......Page 8
Typographic conventions
......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Part 1. Fundamental Notions
......Page 14
Ch. 1. Introduction
......Page 16
Ch. 2. Logical matters
......Page 30
Ch. 3. Types and dimensions of meaning
......Page 54
Ch. 4. Compositionality
......Page 78
Part 2. Words and their Meanings
......Page 96
Ch. 5. Introduction to lexical semantics
......Page 98
Ch. 6. Contextual variability of word meaning
......Page 116
Ch. 7. Word meanings and concepts
......Page 138
Ch. 8. Paradigmatic sense relations of inclusion and identity
......Page 156
Ch. 9. Paradigmatic relations of exclusion and opposition
......Page 176
Ch. 10. Word fields
......Page 190
Ch. 11. Extensions of meaning
......Page 210
Ch. 12. Syntagmatic relations
......Page 230
Ch. 13. Lexical decomposition
......Page 250
Part 3. Semantics and Grammar
......Page 276
Ch. 14. Grammatical semantics......Page 280
Part 4. Pragmatics
......Page 314
Ch. 15. Reference and deixis
......Page 316
Ch. 16. Speech acts
......Page 342
Ch. 17. Implicatures
......Page 360
Conclusion......Page 392
Answers to questions......Page 396
References......Page 414
Subject index......Page 422
Author index......Page 436

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Семантика;