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Semantics (EARLY 20TH CENTURY).

Numerous contributors from both disciplines.

The study of meaning in natural language.

‘Meaning’ is an elusive concept which modern linguists tackle by dispersing into other fundamental ideas such as IMPLICATURE, MEANING-NN, sense and reference, VALUE.

Also see: theories of meaning, LEXICAL SEMANTICS, STRUCTURAL SEMANTICS, truth-conditional semantics

Source:
J Lyons, Semantics (Cambridge, 1977)

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    • 2.1 A Course in Semantics (The MIT Press)
    • 2.2 Semantics (Introducing Linguistics Book 25)
    • 2.3 Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics)
    • 2.4 Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition
    • 2.5 Semantics: A Coursebook
    • 2.6 Semantics in Generative Grammar (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
    • 2.7 Semantic Spaces
    • 2.8 The Semantics of Biblical Language
    • 2.9 Semantics for Reasons
    • 2.10 The Book of Radical General Semantics

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