Introducing English Semantics (2002)

Introducing English Semantics is a comprehensive and accessible introductionto semantics, the study of meaning.Focusing on the English Language, Charles W.Kreidler presents thebasic principles of semantics. He explores how languages organize and expressmeanings through words, parts of words and sentences.

Introducing English Semantics (2002)

Charles W.Kreidler

Routledge

2002

Abstract

Introducing English Semantics is a comprehensive and accessible introductionto semantics, the study of meaning.Focusing on the English Language, Charles W.Kreidler presents thebasic principles of semantics. He explores how languages organize and expressmeanings through words, parts of words and sentences.

Table of contents:

1. The Study of meaning
2. Language in use
3. The dimensions of meaning
4. Semantic roles
5. Lexical relations
6. Transition and transfer predicates
7. Reference
8. Sentences as arguments
9. Speech acts
10. Aspect
11. Factivity, implication and modality
12. A variety of predicates
13. The semantics of morphological relations

Citation

Charles W.Kreidler. Introducing English Semantics (2002). Routledge, 2002.

Collection

Ngành NGÔN NGỮ ANH (7220201)

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