An introduction to English semantics and pragmatics / Patrick Griffiths ; revised by Chris Cummins.
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TextSeries: Edinburgh textbooks on the English languagePublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023Edition: Third editionDescription: ix, 182 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmContent type: - text
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- PE1585 GRI 2023
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Previous edition: 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Studying meaning -- Adjective meanings -- Noun vocabulary -- Verbs and situations -- Figurative language -- Tense and aspect -- Modality, scope and quantification -- Pragmatics -- Connecting utterances to the background.
The book outlines the meaning potential (semantics) of English and how language knowledge is put to use (pragmatics). Readers will gain a systematic overview of meaning in English and will learn how to frame semantic and pragmatic analyses. The significant concepts introduced include denotation, sense relations (such as antonymy and hyponymy), explicature, implicature, presupposition, metaphor, reference, speech acts and quantification.
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