Introducing Semantics

Informationen zum Autor Nick Riemer is a Lecturer in the English and Linguistics departments at the University of Sydney. His recent publications include The Semantics of Polysemy: Reading Meaning in English and Warlpiri (2005). Klappentext An introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students. Zusammenfassung Semantics is the study of meaning in language. This clear and comprehensive textbook provides an introduction to the subject for undergraduate students. It contains more than 200 exercises and discussion questions designed to test and deepen readers' understanding. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Meaning in the empirical study of language; 2. Meaning and definition; 3. The scope of meaning I: external context; 4. The scope of meaning II: interpersonal context; 5. Analysing and distinguishing meanings; 6. Logic as a representation of meaning; 7. Meaning and cognition I: categorisation and cognitive semantics; 8. Meaning and cognition II: formalising and simulating conceptual representations; 9. Meaning and morphosyntax I: the semantics of grammatical categories; 10. Meaning and morphosyntax II: verb meaning and argument structure; 11. Semantic variation and change.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Riemer, Nick (University of Sydney) Riemer, Riemer Nick
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521617413
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61741-3
• No. of pages: 473
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc