Understanding semantics

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Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part takes the reader through a step-by-step guide to the main phenomena and notions of semantics, covering levels and dimensions of meaning, ambiguity, meaning and context, logical relations and meaning relations, the basics of noun semantics, verb semantics and sentence semantics. The second part provides a critical introduction to the basic notions of the three major t…

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Full title :Understanding semantics / Sebastian Löbner.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

Notes

Previous edition published under Hodder Education, the second edition is now published under Routledge after Hodder Education Linguistic titles were acquired in 2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781134052714, 1134052715, 1299716059, 9781299716056, 9780203528334, 0203528336, 9781134052783, 1134052782
oclc:ocn851695547
LC Classification:P325
Dewey Decimal:401/.43

Cover; Understanding Semantics; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Meaning and semantics; 1.1 Levels of meaning; 1.2 Sentence meaning and compositionality; 1.3 Semantics: its scope and limits; Exercises; Further reading; 2 Dimensions of meaning; 2.1 Meanings are concepts; 2.2 Descriptive meaning; 2.3 Meaning and social interaction: the dimension of social meaning; 2.4 Meaning and subjectivity: the dimension of expressive meaning; 2.5 Connotations; 2.6 Dimensions of meaning; Exercises; Further reading; 3 Ambiguity; 3.1 Lexemes; 3.2 Lexical ambiguity.

3.3 Compositional ambiguity3.4 Contextual ambiguity; 3.5 Meaning shifts and polysemy; Exercises; Further reading; 4 Meaning and context; Part 1: Deixis; 4.1 Person deixis; 4.2 Demonstratives and place deixis; 4.3 Time deixis; Part 2: Determination; 4.4 Definiteness and indefiniteness; 4.5 Quantification; 4.6 Generic NPs; Part 3: Presuppositions; 4.7 Presuppositions; 4.8 Summary; Exercises; Further reading; 5 Predication; 5.1 Predications contained in a sentence; 5.2 Predicate terms and argument terms, predicates and arguments; 5.3 Verbs; 5.4 Nouns and adjectives; 5.5 Predicate logic notation.

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