TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griffiths,Patrick
AU  - Cummins,Chris
TI  - An introduction to English semantics and pragmatics
T2  - Edinburgh textbooks on the English language
SN  - 9781474412810
AV  - PE1585 GRI 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Problems, exercises, etc
KW  - Usage
KW  - fast
KW  - Pragmatics
KW  - Englisch
KW  - gnd
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Pragmatik
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -