Synopses & Reviews
Volume 1 provides a general and comprehensive introduction to semantics, synthesizing work on meaning and communication from many disciplines and setting semantics in the larger framework of semiotics.
Synopsis
Volume 1 provides a general and comprehensive introduction to semantics, synthesizing work on meaning and communication.
Synopsis
Anyone who writes an up-to-date textbook of semantics has to be au fait with an extremely wide range of contemporary academic activity. John Lyons' new book demonstrates a remarkable ability to achieve such catholicity of expertise...
Synopsis
A general introduction synthesizing work from many disciplines on meaning and communication. Little technical knowledge needed, as all relevant terms and concepts carefully explained.
Table of Contents
Typographical conventions; Preface; 1. Introduction: some basic terms and concepts; 2. Communication and information; 3. Language as a semiotic system; 4. Semiotics; 5. Behaviourist semantics; 6. Logical semantics; 7. References, sense and denotation; 8. Structural semantics I: semantic fields; 9. Structural semantics II: sense relations; Bibliography; Index.