Linguistic Semantics

Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of symbols and typographical conventions; Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Metalinguistic preliminaries; Part II. Lexical Meaning: 2. Words as meaningful units; 3. Defining the meaning of words; 4. The structural approach; Part III. Sentence-Meaning: 5. Meaningful and meaningless sentences; 6. Sentence-meaning and propositional content; 7. The formalisation of sentence-meaning; Part IV. Utterance-Meaning: 8. Speech acts and illocutionary force; 9. Text and discourse; context and co-text; 10. The subjectivity of utterance; Suggestions for further reading; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lyons John, John Lyons
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.1998
• EAN: 9780521438773
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43877-3
• No. of pages: 396
• Series: Cambridge Approaches to Lingui; Cambridge Approaches to Lingui
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies