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...
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Edinburgh University Press
[2017]
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| Edition: | Second edition |
| Series: | Edinburgh textbooks on the English language
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| Call Number : | PE 1585 .G85 2017 |
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| 264 | 4 | |c © 2017 | |
| 300 | |a xii, 174 pages |b illustrations |c 22 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Studying meaning -- Adjective meanings -- Noun vocabulary -- Verbs and situations -- Figurative language -- Tense and aspect -- Modality, scope and quantification -- Pragmatics -- Connecting utterances to the background | |
| 520 | |a 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 | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a English language |x Semantics |v Problems, exercises, etc | |
| 650 | 0 | |a English language |x Usage |v Problems, exercises, etc | |
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