Semantics 2ed

A Coursebook

By: James R. Hurford, Brendan Heasley, Michael B. Smith

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Paperback | 19 April 2007 | Edition Number 2

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366 Pages

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This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion.

Each unit includes short sections of explanation with examples, followed by stimulating practice exercises to complete in the book. Feedback and comment sections follow each exercise to enable students to monitor their progress. No previous background in semantics is assumed, as students begin by discovering the value and fascination of the subject and then move through all key topics in the field, including sense and reference, simple logic, word meaning and interpersonal meaning.

New study guides and exercises have been added to the end of each unit to help reinforce and test learning. A completely new unit on non-literal language and metaphor, plus updates throughout the text significantly expand the scope of the original edition to bring it up-to-date with modern teaching of semantics for introductory courses in linguistics as well as intermediate students.

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'The best and most accessible textbook in its field.' Keith Green, Sheffield Hallam University 'There is no other book on the market which succeeds so well in integrating theory and practice.' Alexander Bergs, University of Dusseldorf 'An excellent introductory first step. It covers all the main topics which any course on meaning in language will cover, and presents difficult concepts in an easy, accessible way.' Billy Clark, Middlesex University

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Semantics & Discourse Analysis Grammar, Syntax & Morphology Text Books Higher Education & Vocational Textbooks Language Textbooks

Prefaces	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
How to use this book	p. xii
Basic ideas in semantics	p. 1
About semantics	p. 1
Sentences, utterances, and propositions	p. 16
Reference and sense	p. 26
From reference...	p. 36
Referring expressions	p. 36
Predicates	p. 45
Predicates, referring expressions, and universe of discourse	p. 56
Deixis and definiteness	p. 65
Words and things: extensions and prototypes	p. 79
...to sense	p. 93
Sense properties and stereotypes	p. 93
Sense relations (1)	p. 105
Sense relations (2)	p. 120
Logic	p. 141
About logic	p. 141
A notation for simple propositions	p. 152
Connectives: and or	p. 164
More connectives	p. 180
Word meaning	p. 194
About dictionaries	p. 194
Meaning postulates	p. 205
Properties of predicates	p. 218
Derivation	p. 225
Participant roles	p. 244
Interpersonal and non-literal meaning	p. 260
Speech acts	p. 260
Perlocutions and illocutions	p. 269
Felicity conditions	p. 281
Direct and indirect illocutions	p. 289
Propositions and illocutions	p. 303
Conversational implicature	p. 314
Non-literal meaning: idioms, metaphor, and metonymy	p. 327
Selected references and recommendations for further study	p. 345
Index	p. 347
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