Meaning in Language An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics

by Cruse, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780198700111
• ISBN10: 0198700113
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2099-11-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

"The text and exercises in this new edition have been fully updated to take into account the most recent developments in the field and a new chapter has been added outlining new directions in the study of lexical semantics."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Alan Cruse is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Manchester University.

Table of Contents

Typographic conventions	p. ix
Preface to the first edition	p. x
Preface to the second edition	p. xiii
Fundamental Notions	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Logical matters	p. 17
Types and dimensions of meaning	p. 39
Compositionality	p. 63
Words and their Meanings	p. 81
Introduction to lexical semantics	p. 83
Contextual variability of word meaning	p. 101
Word meanings and concepts	p. 123
Paradigmatic sense relations of inclusion and identity	p. 141
Paradigmatic relations of exclusion and opposition	p. 159
Word fields	p. 173
Extensions of meaning	p. 193
Syntagmatic relations	p. 215
Lexical decomposition	p. 233
New directions in lexical semantics: a dynamic construal approach	p. 259
Semantics and Grammar	p. 273
Grammatical semantics	p. 275
Pragmatics	p. 313
Reference and deixis	p. 315
Speech acts	p. 343
Conversational implicatures	p. 361
Conclusion	p. 395
Answers to questions	p. 399
References	p. 417
Author index	p. 425
Subject index	p. 427
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