A comprehensive introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language. Alan Cruse covers semantic matters, but also deals with topics that are usually considered to fall under pragmatics. A major aim is to highlight the richness and subtlety of meaning phenomena, rather than to expound any particular theory.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1 Fundamental Notions
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Logic and Meaning
- 3: Concepts and Meaning
- Part 2 Words and Their Meanings
- 4: Lexical Units
- 5: Contextual Variability of Word Meaning
- 6: Paradigmatic Relations of Inclusion and Identity
- 7: Paradigmatic Relations of Exclusion and Opposition
- 8: Lexical Hierarchies
- 9: Syntagmatic Semantic Relations
- 10: Describing Lexical Senses 1: Dimensions and Structures
- 11: Describing lexical Senses 2: Approaches to the Specification of Word Meanings
- 12: Extensions of Meaning
- Part 3 Grammatical Meaning
- 13: Grammatical Meaning: Nouns and Noun Phrases
- 14: Argument Structure and Transitivity
- 15: Grammatical Meaning: Verbs and Adjectives
- 16: The Semantics of Prepositions
- 17: The Semantics of Derivational Affixes
- part 4 Pragmatics
- 18: Speech Acts
- 19: Reference and Deixis
- 20: Conversational Implicatures
- Epilogue
- Answers to Questions
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
