An introduction to English semantics and pragmatics
The book outlines the meaning potential (semantics) of English and how language knowledge is put to use (pragmatics). Readers will gain a systematic overview of meaning in English and will learn how to frame semantic and pragmatic analyses. The significant concepts introduced include denotation, sen...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
[2017]
|
| Edition: | Second edition |
| Series: | Edinburgh textbooks on the English language
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | The book outlines the meaning potential (semantics) of English and how language knowledge is put to use (pragmatics). Readers will gain a systematic overview of meaning in English and will learn how to frame semantic and pragmatic analyses. The significant concepts introduced include denotation, sense relations (such as antonymy and hyponymy), explicature, implicature, presupposition, metaphor, reference, speech acts and quantification |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | xii, 174 pages illustrations 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781474412834 (pbk) 1474412831 (pbk) 9781474412810 (hbk) 1474412815 (hbk) |