824 Pages
by
Routledge
824 Pages
by
Routledge
824 Pages
by
Routledge
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Dr Keith Allan presents a coherent, consistent and comprehensive account of linguistic meaning, centred around an informally presented theory of meaning. It is intended for graduate and undergraduate students of linguistics, or any linguist curious about what a theory of meaning should seek to accomplish and the way to achieve that aim.
The work assumes that the primary task of a theory of... Read more
1. Beginning an account of linguistic meaning: speaker, hearer, context, and utterance (1) 2. What is meaning? (75) 3. Meaningful properties and meaning relations (140) 4. Lexicon semantics (216) 5. The semantic interpretation of sentences: a study of Katz’s semantic theory and post-Katzian semantics (274) 6. Prosody and meaning (1) 7. Informational aspects of the utterance (59) 8. Speech acts (164) 9. Epilogue: on linguistic meaning (281)
Biography
Keith Allan
