This lively book provides a truly comprehensive introduction to current linguistic semantics. Used in introductory and intermediate courses in semantics, it will supply teachers with an easy to use basic text and students with an accessible source of dependable information'. Ronnie Cann, University of Edinburgh. "This is a solid, well-written and very comprehensive textbook that will prove an invaluable resource in introductory semantics classes. The exercises are especially useful and the secti

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导读
Part Ⅰ Preliminaries
1 Semantics in Linguistics
2 Meaning,Thought and Reality
Part Ⅱ Semantic Description
3 World Meaning
4 Sentence Relations and Truth
5 Sentence Semantics 1:Situations
6 Sentence Semantics 2:Participants
7 Context and Inference
8 Functions of Language:Speech as Action
Part Ⅲ Theoretical Approaches
9 Meaning Components
10 Formal Semantics
11 Cognitive Semantics
References
Index
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