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Semantics John I. Saeed

Semantics By John I. Saeed

Semantics by John I. Saeed

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This is a general introduction to semantics for readers new to the area. The book aims to introduce some of the central areas of investigation in the field, and to enable the reader to proceed into the more specialized and technical literature.

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Semantics by John I. Saeed

This volume provides an engaging introduction to semantics for readers new to the subject. The book has three sections. Part I is concerned with the place of semantics within linguistics and its relation with the disciplines of philosophy and psychology. Part II introduces central topics in the description of word and sentence meaning. Part III reviews the three main current theoretical approaches to semantics: componential theory, formal semantics and cognitive semantics.The book discusses semantic phenomena from a wide range of languages. Each chapter contains exercises to allow the reader to explorethe issues raised, and suggestions fro further readings.

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"This lively book provides a truly comprehensive introduction to current linguistic semantics. Used in introductory and intermediate courses in semantics, it will supply teachers with an easy to use basic text and students with an accessible source of dependable information." Ronnie Cann, University of Edinburgh.

"This is a solid well-written and very comprehensive textbook that will prove an invaluable resource in introductoy semantics classes. The exercises are especially useful and the sections on theoretical approaches represent ideal links to more advanced semantic theory." David Adger, University of York.

About John I. Saeed

John I. Saeed is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin. He is author of several books, including Somali Reference Grammar (second edition, 1993) and Somali (forthcoming, 1997).

Table of Contents

List of Figures. Preface. List of Abbreviations. Part I: Preliminaries: 1. Semantics in Linguistics. Introduction. Semantics and Semiotics. Three Challenges in Doing Semantics. Meeting the Challenges. Semantics in a Model of Grammar. Some Important Assumptions. Summary. Further Reading. Exercises. Notes. 2. Meaning, Thought and Reality. Introduction. Reference. Reference as a Theory of Meaning. Mental Representations. Words, Concepts and Thinking. Summary. Further Reading. Exercises. Notes. Part II: Semantic Description: 3. Word Meaning. Introduction. Words and Grammatical Categories. Words and Lexical Items. Problems and Pinning Down Word Meaning. Lexical Relations. Derivational Relations. Summary. Further Reading. Exercises. Notes. 4. Sentence Relations and Truth. Introduction. Logic and Truth. Necessary Truth, A Priori Truth and Analyticity. Entailment. Presupposition. Summary. Further Reading. Exercises. Notes. 5. Sentence Semantics 1: Situations. Introduction. Classifying Situations. Modality and Evidentiality. Summary. Further Reading. Exercises. Notes. 6. Sentence Semantics 2: Participants. Introduction: Classifying Participants. Thematic Roles. Grammatical Relations and Thematic Roles. Verbs and Thematic Role Grids. Problems with Thematic Roles. The Motivation for Identifying Thematic Roles. Voice. Summary. Further Reading. Exercises. Notes. 7. Context and Inference. Introduction. Deixis. Reference and Context. Knowledge as Context. Information Structure. Inference. Conversational Implicature. Summary. Further Reading. Exercises. Notes. 8. Functions of Language: Speech as Action. Introduction. Austin's Speech Act Theory. Categorizing Speech Acts. Indirect Speech Acts. Sentence Types. Summary. Further Reading. Exercises. Notes. Part III: Theoretical Approaches: 9. Meaning Components. Introduction. Lexical Relations in CA. Katz's Semantic Theory. Grammatical Rules and Semantic Components. Components and Conflation Patterns. Jackendoff's Conceptual Structure. Problems with Components of Meaning. Summary. Further Reading. Exercises. Notes. 10. Formal Semantics. Introduction. Model-Theoretical Semantics. Translating English into Logical Metalanguage. The Semantics of the Logical Metalanguage. Checking the Truth Value of Sentences. Intensionality. Word Meaning: Meaning Postulates. Summary. Further Reading. Exercises. Notes. 11. Cognitive Semantics. Introduction. Metaphor. Image Schemas. Polysemy. Mental Spaces. Construing a Scene. Summary. Further Reading. Exercises. Notes. References. Index.

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GOR001479242
9780631200352
0631200355
Semantics by John I. Saeed
John I. Saeed
Introducing Linguistics
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1996-04-11
384
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