An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics by Patrick Griffiths

An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics by Patrick Griffiths

An introduction to the linguistic study of meaning, this book outlines the meaning potential (semantics) of English and how language knowledge is put to use (pragmatics). As well as gaining a systematic overview of meaning in English, readers can learn how to argue for analyses. Among the significant concepts introduced are denotation, sense relations, event types, explicature, implicature, presupposition, metaphor, reference, speech acts and (at an elementary level) Generalised Quantifier Theory. Sense relations--such as antonymy and hyponymy--are presented as summarising patterns of entailment. The sense of a word is seen as the contributions it makes to the entailments carried by sentences.

Patrick Griffiths was a professor of English at Beppu University, Japan. He taught courses on semantics, the structure of English, psycholinguistics and general linguistics at a number of universities, including Beppu, the University of the South Pacific, and in the UK at York University and York St John.

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ISBN 13	9780748616329
ISBN 10	0748616322
Title	An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics
Author	Patrick Griffiths
Series	Edinburgh Textbooks On The English Language
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Year published	2006-05-30
Number of pages	208
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