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Meaning in language : an introduction to semantics and pragmatics / Alan Cruse.
- Title
- Meaning in language : an introduction to semantics and pragmatics / Alan Cruse.
- Author
- Cruse, D. A.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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| Text | Request in advance | P325 .C784 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 441 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The text and exercises in this new edition have been fully updated to take into account the most recent developments in the field and a new chapter has been added outlining new directions in the study of lexical semantics."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Oxford textbooks in linguistics
- Uniform Title
- Oxford textbooks in linguistics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Lehrbuch.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-426) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. Fundamental Notions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Logical matters -- 3. Types and dimensions of meaning -- 4. Compositionality -- pt. 2. Words and their Meanings -- 5. Introduction to lexical semantics -- 6. Contextual variability of word meaning -- 7. Word meanings and concepts -- 8. Paradigmatic sense relations of inclusion and identity -- 9. Paradigmatic relations of exclusion and opposition -- 10. Word fields -- 11. Extensions of meaning -- 12. Syntagmatic relations -- 13. Lexical decomposition -- 14. New directions in lexical semantics: a dynamic construal approach -- pt. 3. Semantics and Grammar -- 15. Grammatical semantics -- pt. 4. Pragmatics -- 16. Reference and deixis -- 17. Speech acts -- 18. Conversational implicatures.
- ISBN
- 019926306X
- LCCN
- ^^2004041475
- OCLC
- 54024211
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library