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This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters are organized into six units: (1) Foundational concepts; (2) Word meanings; (3) Implicature (including indirect speech acts); (4) Compositional semantics; (5) Modals, conditionals, and causation; (6) Tense & aspect.
Most of the chapters include exercises which can be used for class discussion and/or homework assignments, and each chapter contains references for additional reading on the topics covered.
As the title indicates, this book is truly an INTRODUCTION: it provides a solid foundation which will prepare students to take more advanced and specialized courses in semantics and/or pragmatics.
This book is made open access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched Language Science Press 2018 - 2020
This book is made open access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched Language Science Press 2018 - 2020
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- Language
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics
- Linguistics
- Semantics & pragmatics
- Semantics, discourse analysis, etc
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2538330Editions
