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This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters are organized into six units: (1) Foundational concepts; (2) Word...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-295522021-11-12T16:07:23Z Analyzing meaning Kroeger, Paul Linguistics Implicature Inference Semantics Speech act bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters are organized into six units: (1) Foundational concepts; (2) Word meanings; (3) Implicature (including indirect speech acts); (4) Compositional semantics; (5) Modals, conditionals, and causation; (6) Tense & aspect. Most of the chapters include exercises which can be used for class discussion and/or homework assignments, and each chapter contains references for additional reading on the topics covered. As the title indicates, this book is truly an INTRODUCTION: it provides a solid foundation which will prepare students to take more advanced and specialized courses in semantics and/or pragmatics. It is also intended as a reference for fieldworkers doing primary research on under-documented languages, to help them write grammatical descriptions that deal carefully and clearly with semantic issues. The approach adopted here is largely descriptive and non-formal (or, in some places, semi-formal), although some basic logical notation is introduced. The book is written at level which should be appropriate for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students. It presupposes some previous coursework in linguistics, but does not presuppose any background in formal logic or set theory. 2018-09-04 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:38 2020-04-01T12:32:01Z 2020-04-01T12:32:01Z 2018-02-28 book 1000382 OCN: 1051782444 2364-6209 9783961100675;9783961100347 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29552 eng Textbooks in Language Sciences application/pdf n/a 1000382.pdf Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.1164112 103534 10.5281/zenodo.1164112 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783961100675;9783961100347 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 103534 Language Science Press 2018 - 2020 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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