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Semantics and pragmatics : Meaning in language and discourse

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Longman linguistics libraryPublication details: UK Longman 2002Description: 405pISBN:
  • 0582418909
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.43/JAS JAS
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Semantics is a core topic on the majority of undergraduate linguistic degree courses. It is the study of meaning in language, both in terms of definition and the way meanings are conveyed and vary within everyday situations.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Word meaning, sentence meaning, speaker meaning
  • Concepts
  • Sentence Meaning
  • Sentential connectives
  • Quantified expressions and predicate logic
  • Syntax and semantics of predicate logic: an overview
  • Referring expressions and propositional attitude reports
  • Topic, focus and presupposition
  • Deictic expressions
  • Implicature
  • What is said and the semantics/pragmatics interface
  • Temporality
  • Dynamic semantics and Discourse Representation Theory
  • Speech acts and intentionality
  • Linguistic politeness
  • Cross-cultural pragmatics
  • Metaphor

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