Linguistic semantics : an introduction

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lyons, John , 1932- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press , c1995
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Metalinguistic preliminaries
  • 2. Words as meaningful units
  • 3. Defining the meaning of words
  • 4. The structural approach
  • 5. Meaningful and meaningless sentences
  • 6. Sentence-meaning and propositional content
  • 7. The formalization of sentence-meaning
  • 8. Speech acts and illocutionary force
  • 9. Text and discourse; context and co-text
  • 10. The subjectivity of utterance