Keith Allan

Linguistic Meaning (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics) (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 linguistic meaning is to describe the meaning of speech acts. This in turn presupposes a theory of semantics and a theory of prosodic meaning, as well as a proper treatment of the co-operative principle, context and background information. These matters are dealt with in detail. The second task of a theory of linguistic meaning is to identify what meaning is, to explain the relationships between sense and denotation, and to explicate the nature of meaningful properties and meaning relations. These matters are fully covered, and the work concludes with a summary of the principle arguments presented.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 824
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134742448
• Artikelnr.: 40445411

Autorenporträt

Keith Allan

Inhaltsangabe

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)