The Routledge handbook of semantics
by Riemer, Nick
The Routledge Handbook of Semantics provides a broad and state-of-the-art survey of this field, covering semantic research at both word and sentence level. It presents a synoptic view of the most important areas of semantic investigation, including contemporary methodologies and debates, and indicating possible future directions in the field. Written by experts from around the world, the 29 chapters cover key issues and approaches within the following areas:meaning and conceptualisation; meanin…
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The Routledge Handbook of Semantics provides a broad and state-of-the-art survey of this field, covering semantic research at both word and sentence level. It presents a synoptic view of the most important areas of semantic investigation, including contemporary methodologies and debates, and indicating possible future directions in the field. Written by experts from around the world, the 29 chapters cover key issues and approaches within the following areas:meaning and conceptualisation; meaning and context; lexical semantics; semantics of specific phenomena; development, change and variation.
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- Publication Date:©2016
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781317412458, 1317412451
- oclc:ocn915343861
- LC Classification:P325
- Dewey Decimal:401/.43
Table of Contents
The Routledge Handbook of Semantics-Front Cover; The Routledge Handbook of Semantics; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Semantics -- a theory in search of an object; References; Part I: Foundational issues; Chapter 1: (Descriptive) Externalism in semantics; 1 Introduction; 2 Varieties of externalism and internalism; 3 Against externalism; 4 For externalism; 5 Concluding remark; Acknowledgments; Further reading; References; Related topics; Chapter 2: Internalist semantics: Meaning, conceptualization and expression.
1 Introduction2 Features of concepts; 3 Critiques of internalist semantics; 4 Future directions; Further reading; References; Related topics; Chapter 3: A history of semantics; 1 Naming; 2 Realism vs. nominalism; 3 The earliest forays into lexical semantics; 4 Componential analysis; 5 Prototype and stereotype semantics; 6 Frame semantics; 7 Semantics within syntactic structures; 8 Alternatives to Katzian semantics; 9 Conceptual semantics; 10 The importance of truth conditions; 11 The development of formal semantics; 12 Dynamic semantics; 13 Conclusion; Further reading; References.
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