Linguistic Semantics: an Introduction
Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons' important textbook Language, Meaning and Context (1981). While preserving the general structure of the earlier book, the author has substantially expanded its scope to introduce several topics that were not previously discussed, and to take account of new developments in linguistic semantics over the past decade. The resulting work is an invaluable guide to the subject, offering clarifications of its specialized terms...
Search in google:
This successor to Language, Meaning and Context provides an invaluable introduction to linguistic semantics.
PrefaceList of symbols and typographical conventions1Metalinguistic preliminaries12Words as meaningful units463Defining the meaning of words754The structural approach1025Meaningful and meaningless sentences1316Sentence-meaning and propositional content1537The formalization of sentence-meaning1998Speech acts and illocutionary force2349Text and discourse; context and co-text25810The subjectivity of utterance293Suggestions for further reading343Bibliography347Index360
