Analyzing meaning An introduction to semantics and pragmatics
This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters are organized into six units: (1) Foundational concepts; (2) Word...
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Language Science Press
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- I. Foundational concepts
- Chapter 1: The meaning of meaning
- Chapter 2: Referring, denoting, and expressing
- Chapter 3: Truth and inference
- Chapter 4: The logic of truth
- II. Word meanings
- Chapter 5: Word senses
- Chapter 6: Lexical sense relations
- Chapter 7: Components of lexical meaning
- III. Implicature
- Chapter 8: Grice's theory of Implicature
- Chapter 9: Pragmatic inference after Grice
- Chapter 10: Indirect Speech Acts
- Chapter 11: Conventional implicature and use-conditional meaning
- IV. Compositional semantics
- Chapter 12: How meanings are composed
- Chapter 13: Modeling compositionality
- Chapter 14: Quantifiers
- Chapter 15: Intensional contexts
- V. Modals, conditionals, and causation
- Chapter 16: Modality
- Chapter 17: Evidentiality
- Chapter 18: Because
- Chapter 19: Conditionals
- VI. Tense & aspect
- Chapter 20: Aspect and Aktionsart
- Chapter 21: Tense
- Cahpter 22: Varieties of the Perfect
- References
- Index