An Introduction to English Semantics And Pragmatics - Brossura

Griffiths, Patrick

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ISBN 10: 0748616322 ISBN 13: 9780748616329

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2006

Riassunto

An introduction to the linguistic study of meaning, this book outlines the meaning potential (semantics) of English and how language knowledge is put to use (pragmatics). As well as gaining a systematic overview of meaning in English, readers can learn how to argue for analyses. Among the significant concepts introduced are denotation, sense relations, event types, explicature, implicature, presupposition, metaphor, reference, speech acts and (at an elementary level) Generalised Quantifier Theory. Sense relations--such as antonymy and hyponymy--are presented as summarising patterns of entailment. The sense of a word is seen as the contributions it makes to the entailments carried by sentences.

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L'autore:

Patrick Griffiths is Professor of English at the Beppu University, Japan

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Book by Griffiths Patrick

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0748616322
• ISBN 13: 9780748616329
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 193