Sandrine Zufferey, Jacques Moeschler

Studying Meaning

Semantics and Pragmatics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Studying Meaning provides a comprehensive introduction to semantics and pragmatics, covering all key concepts and new developments in an accessible manner. By introducing both together, the book compares their contributions to meaning and provides a coherent view, and highlights the boundaries between these disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781041058335
• ISBN-10: 1041058330
• Artikelnr.: 73874352

Autorenporträt

Sandrine Zufferey is full professor of French linguistics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Jacques Moeschler is emeritus professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A brief introduction to semantics and pragmatics 2. Language, thoughts
and the world 3. Lexical semantics 4. Meaning relations between sentences
5. The semantic structure of sentences 6. Meaning and categories 7.
Cognitive semantics 8. Meaning in pragmatics: from conventions to
inferences 9. Pragmatic inferences: implicatures and explicatures 10.
Discourse pragmatics 11. Pragmatics and social relations 12. Cross-cultural
and intercultural pragmatics 13. Pragmatics and cognition 14. Semantics and
pragmatics: where are the boundaries?