Semantic Analysis: A Practical Introduction (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics) - Softcover

Goddard, Cliff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199560285 ISBN 13: 9780199560288

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

This lively textbook introduces students and scholars to practical and precise methods for articulating the meanings of words and sentences, and for revealing connections between language and culture. Topics range over emotions, speech acts, words for animals and artifacts, motion, activity verbs, causatives, discourse particles, and nonverbal communication. Alongside English, it features a wide range of other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, and Australian Aboriginal languages. Undergraduates, graduate students and professional linguists alike will benefit from Goddard's wide-ranging summaries, clear explanations and analytical depth. Meaning is fundamental to language and linguistics. This book shows that the study of meaning can be rigorous, insightful and exciting.

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About the Author

Cliff Goddard is Professor of Linguistics at Griffith University, Australia. He was previously Professor of Linguistics, University of New England. His books include The Languages of East and Southeast Asia (OUP 2005). He is co-editor with Anna Wierzbicka of Meaning and Universal Grammar (Benjamins 2002) with whom he is currently working on a book concerned with words and meanings.

Review

a valuable textbook grounded in the Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory, with enough breadth and depth to be suitable for most basic semantics courses. * Onna Nelson, Studies in Language *

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0199560285
• ISBN 13: 9780199560288
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 490