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Understanding semantics /
Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part takes the reader through a step-by-step guide to the main phenomena and notions of semantics, covering levels and dimensions of meaning, ambiguity, meaning and context, l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Understanding language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Understanding Semantics; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Meaning and semantics; 1.1 Levels of meaning; 1.2 Sentence meaning and compositionality; 1.3 Semantics: its scope and limits; Exercises; Further reading; 2 Dimensions of meaning; 2.1 Meanings are concepts; 2.2 Descriptive meaning; 2.3 Meaning and social interaction: the dimension of social meaning; 2.4 Meaning and subjectivity: the dimension of expressive meaning; 2.5 Connotations; 2.6 Dimensions of meaning; Exercises; Further reading; 3 Ambiguity; 3.1 Lexemes; 3.2 Lexical ambiguity.
- 3.3 Compositional ambiguity3.4 Contextual ambiguity; 3.5 Meaning shifts and polysemy; Exercises; Further reading; 4 Meaning and context; Part 1: Deixis; 4.1 Person deixis; 4.2 Demonstratives and place deixis; 4.3 Time deixis; Part 2: Determination; 4.4 Definiteness and indefiniteness; 4.5 Quantification; 4.6 Generic NPs; Part 3: Presuppositions; 4.7 Presuppositions; 4.8 Summary; Exercises; Further reading; 5 Predication; 5.1 Predications contained in a sentence; 5.2 Predicate terms and argument terms, predicates and arguments; 5.3 Verbs; 5.4 Nouns and adjectives; 5.5 Predicate logic notation.
- 5.6 Thematic roles5.7 Selectional restrictions; 5.8 Summary; Exercises; Further reading; 6 Verbs; 6.1 Argument structure, diatheses and alternations; 6.2 Situation structure; 6.3 Aspect; 6.4 Tense; 6.5 Selected tense and aspect systems; 6.6 Concluding remark; Exercises; Further reading; 7 Meaning and logic; 7.1 Logical basics; 7.2 Logical properties of sentences; 7.3 Logical relations between sentences; 7.4 Sentential logic; 7.5 Logical relations between words; 7.6 Logic and meaning; 7.7 Classical logic and presuppositions; Exercises; Further reading; 8 Meaning relations; 8.1 Synonymy.
- 8.2 Hyponymy8.3 Oppositions; 8.4 Lexical fields; Exercises; Further reading; 9 Meaning components; 9.1 The structuralist approach; 9.2 Applying the structuralist approach to meaning; 9.3 Semantic features; 9.4 Semantic formulae; 9.5 Semantic primes: Wierzbicka's Natural Semantic Metalanguage; 9.6 Summary and evaluation of the approaches to decomposition; Exercises; Further reading; 10 Meaning and language comparison; 10.1 Translation problems; 10.2 Headache, international; 10.3 Relativism and universalism; 10.4 Berlin and Kay's investigation of colour terms; 10.5 Consequences; Exercises.
- Further reading11 Meaning and cognition; 11.1 Categories and concepts; 11.2 Prototype theory; 11.3 The hierarchical organization of categories; 11.4 Challenges to prototype theory; 11.5 Semantics and prototype theo; 11.6 Semantic knowledge; 11.7 Summary; Exercises; Further reading; 12 Frames; 12.1 Barsalou frames; 12.2 Verbs and frames; 12.3 Nouns and frames; 12.4 Frames and composition; 12.5 Frames and cognition; 12.6 Conclusion; Exercises; Further reading; 13 Formal semantics; 13.1 Japanese numerals: a simple example of a compositional analysis; 13.2 A small fragment of English.