A comprehensive introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language. Alan Cruse covers semantic matters, but also deals with topics that are usually considered to fall under pragmatics. A major aim is to highlight the richness and subtlety of meaning phenomena, rather than to expound any particular theory. INDICE: Part 1 Fundamental Notions; 1: Introduction; 2: Logic and Meaning; 3: Concepts and Meaning; Part 2 Words and Their Meanings; 4: Lexical Units; 5: Contextual Variability of Word Meaning; 6: Paradigmatic Relations of Inclusion and Identity; 7: Paradigmatic Relations of Exclusion and Opposition; 8: Lexical Hierarchies; 9: Syntagmatic Semantic Relations; 10: Describing LexicalSenses 1: Dimensions and Structures; 11: Describing lexical Senses 2: Approaches to the Specification of Word Meanings; 12: Extensions of Meaning; Part 3 Grammatical Meaning; 13: Grammatical Meaning: Nouns and Noun Phrases; 14: Argument Structure and Transitivity; 15: Grammatical Meaning: Verbs and Adjectives;16: The Semantics of Prepositions; 17: The Semantics of Derivational Affixes;part 4 Pragmatics; 18: Speech Acts; 19: Reference and Deixis; 20: Conversational Implicatures; Epilogue; Answers to Questions; References; Author Index; Subject Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-955946-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 512
- Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés