Semantics - Theories
eBook - ePub

Semantics - Theories

  1. 449 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Semantics - Theories

About this book

Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material gathered here is perfect for anyone who needs a detailed and accessible introduction to the important semantic theories. Designed for a wide audience, it will be of great value to linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language. The book covers theories of lexical semantics, cognitively oriented approaches to semantics, compositional theories of sentence semantics, and discourse semantics. This clear, elegant explanation of the key theories in semantics research is essential reading for anyone working in the area.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. 1 Cognitive Semantics: An overview
  6. 2 Prototype theory
  7. 3 Frame Semantics
  8. 4 Conceptual Semantics
  9. 5 Two-level Semantics: Semantic Form and Conceptual Structure
  10. 6 Word meaning and world knowledge
  11. 7 Model-theoretic semantics
  12. 8 Event semantics
  13. 9 Situation Semantics and the ontology of natural language
  14. 10 Situation Semantics: From indexicality to metacommunicative interaction
  15. 11 Discourse Representation Theory
  16. 12 Dynamic semantics
  17. 13 Rhetorical relations
  18. Index

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Yes, you can access Semantics - Theories by Claudia Maienborn,Klaus Heusinger,Paul Portner in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistic Semantics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.