Semantic Analysis

A Practical Introduction
2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-956028-8
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 874 g

Reihe: Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics

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 artefacts, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goddard, Cliff

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sprachpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Semantics: The Study of Meaning
2: Three Traditions: Lexicography, Logic, and Structuralism
3: NSM and Other Contemporary Approaches
4: The Semantics of Emotions
5: Speech-act Verbs
6: Discourse Particles and Interjections
7: Animals and Artefacts
8: Motion
9: Physical Activity Verbs
10: Causatives
11: Grammatical Categories
12: Developments, Extensions, and Applications
Solutions to Selected Exercises
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

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.