An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics
Language: English
Published by Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2023
Series: Book 7 of 13 - Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language
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- Title
- An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics
- Author
- Griffiths, Patrick/ Cummins, Chris (Editor)
- Publisher
- Edinburgh Univ Pr
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1399504606
- ISBN 13
- 9781399504607
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Item weight
- 0.37 kilograms
- Series
- Book 7 of 13: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language
This clear and accessible textbook introduces the crucial concepts essential to your study of the semantics and pragmatics of English. Coverage is wide-ranging, taking you from word meaning to the level of discourse, and explaining how these topics are treated in contemporary linguistic research. Chapters cover adjective, noun and verb meanings, situation types, figurative language, tense, aspect, modality, quantification, topic and focus. Explanations of entailment, compositionality and scope provide a foundation for subsequent study of formal semantics.
Supported by chapter summaries and with plenty of usage examples, exercises and discussion questions, you will not only gain a systematic overview of meaning in English but be equipped with the tools to argue for specific analyses as well.
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About the Author
Chris Cummins is Reader in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. His other works include Pragmatics (EUP, 2019) and Constraints on Numerical Expressions (2015), and he co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics (2019) with Napoleon Katsos.
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