Linguistic semantics : an introduction / John Lyons.
Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons's important study Language, Meaning and Context (1981). While preserving the general structure of the earlier book, the author has substantially expanded its scope to introduce several topics that were not previously discu...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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1995.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Metalinguistic preliminaries
- 2. Words as meaningful units
- 3. Defining the meaning of words
- 4. structural approach
- 5. Meaningful and meaningless sentences
- 6. Sentence-meaning and propositional content
- 7. formalization of sentence-meaning
- 8. Speech acts and illocutionary force
- 9. Text and discourse; context and co-text
- 10. subjectivity of utterance.