Meaning in English - An Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Javier Valenzuela is a Tenured Professor in Linguistics at the University of Murcia. He is the author of Lingüística y cognición: el lenguaje desde la lingüística cognitiva (with Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, forthcoming) and editor of Lingüística Cognitiva (with Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, 2012) and he has published in journals including Cognitive Science, the Journal of Pragmatics, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience and Language Sciences. He also served as President of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association from 2012 to 2016. Klappentext A lively, up-to-date and compact introduction to semantics, accessible to those with no prior knowledge of linguistics. Zusammenfassung A compact introduction to semantics! connecting semantic issues with cognitive science through numerous examples of up-to-date experimental research. This textbook is accessible to beginners and undergraduates! with no prior knowledge of linguistic analysis! taking courses in linguistics! English studies! English language and the cognitive sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. What is semantics?; 2. Analyzing meaning; 3. Language and thought; 4. Word meaning; 5. Meaning relations; 6. Acquisition of meaning and cross-linguistic meaning; 7. Figurative meaning; 8. Sentential meaning; 9. Discourse meaning and pragmatics.

Product details

• Authors: Javier Valenzuela, Javier (Universidad De Murcia Valenzuela, Valenzuela Javier
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781107480162
• ISBN: 978-1-107-48016-2
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to the English Language; Cambridge Introductions to the; Cambridge Introductions to the English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc