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About this book
Studying Meaning provides a comprehensive introduction to semantics and pragmatics, covering all key concepts and new developments in an accessible manner. By introducing semantics and pragmatics together, the book compares their contributions to meaning and provides a coherent view. It also highlights where the boundaries between these disciplines lie.
The 14 chapters trace the historical development of semantics and pragmatics and incorporate recent subfields such as cognitive semantics, embodiment theories, and intercultural pragmatics. The book offers an up-to-date overview of research methodologies, drawing on examples from various languages and empirical data from corpora. Each chapter ends with a list of questions and exercises. This text provides an accessible yet comprehensive exploration of how meaning is conveyed in communication, covering linguistic, cognitive, and social aspects. Online support materials are provided to enhance and deepen understanding of the text.
Assuming no prior knowledge, this is essential reading for students of semantics, pragmatics, linguistics, and related fields.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- 1 A brief introduction to semantics and pragmatics
- 2 Language, thoughts and the world
- 3 Lexical semantics
- 4 Meaning relations between sentences
- 5 The semantic structure of sentences
- 6 Meaning and categories
- 7 Cognitive semantics
- 8 Meaning in pragmatics: From convention to inferences
- 9 Pragmatic inferences: Implicatures and explicatures
- 10 Discourse pragmatics
- 11 Pragmatics and social relations
- 12 Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics
- 13 Pragmatics and cognition
- 14 Semantics and pragmatics: Where are the boundaries?
- Index