Studying Meaning - Semantics and Pragmatics

Studying Meaning provides a comprehensive introduction to semantics and pragmatics, covering all key concepts and new developments in an accessible manner. By introducing both together, the book compares their contributions to meaning and provides a coherent view, and highlights the boundaries between these disciplines.

List of contents

1. A brief introduction to semantics and pragmatics 2. Language, thoughts and the world 3. Lexical semantics 4. Meaning relations between sentences 5. The semantic structure of sentences 6. Meaning and categories 7. Cognitive semantics 8. Meaning in pragmatics: from conventions to inferences 9. Pragmatic inferences: implicatures and explicatures 10. Discourse pragmatics 11. Pragmatics and social relations 12. Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics 13. Pragmatics and cognition 14. Semantics and pragmatics: where are the boundaries?

About the author

Sandrine Zufferey is full professor of French linguistics at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
Jacques Moeschler is emeritus professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva.

Product details

• Authors: Moeschler Jacques, Sandrine (University of Fribourg Zufferey, Zufferey Sandrine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 16.10.2025
• EAN: 9781041058335
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4105833-5
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics