1st Edition

Semantics Defining the Discipline

By Robert A. Hipkiss Copyright 1995
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

The subject of semantics has been appropriated by various disciplines including linguistic philosophy, logic, cognitive psychology, anthropological linguistics, and computer technology. As a result, it is difficult to define the study of semantics as an actual discipline without discovering what each field using a semantic approach to its subject matter has contributed to the understanding of what... Read more
Contents: Preface. Introduction. Knowing and Meaning. Association and Logic. Truth, Meaning and Pragmatics. Word Formation and Definition. Grammar and Syntax. Metaphor and Related Figures of Speech. Contrastive Figures of Speech. Artificial Intelligence. General Semantics. Semantics: An Intrarelated Discipline.

Biography

Robert A. Hipkiss