Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction

by John Lyons

Preserving the general structure of the author's important study Language, Meaning and Context (1981), this text has been expanded in scope to introduce several topics that were not previously discussed, and to take account of new developments in linguistic semantics over the past decade.

Genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction, Language

396 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 1995

About the author

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Sir John Lyons, LittD, FBA, is an English linguist, working on semantics. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyo...]

Reviews

[Dougald]

Well, it's about meaning....so of course I enjoyed it.

[Umm Miqdaad]

Please, how do I get reading books here.

[George Marshall]

Very interesting read. Might have liked the author to take more specific point to declare his own leanings in philosophical matters. But his approach of walking the student into the history in such a way that the present and future would be illumined can really not be faulted. Will have to definitely follow up with some more up to date work on aspect, reference, and the mapping of structures into physical hardware (really not at issue in this book, but some coverage of functions and nested parameterization hints at it). My personal focus on the past has been way more pragmatic in the sense of, "what are the rules for this language" or "how do I map this language to that". The philosophical approach underpinning different paths in linguistic meaning was both frustrating to read about, and well worth confronting.

[Deen]

helpfull book!
i read it for my last examination.u can guess the content of the bokk just by seeing it's tittle.

[Toriq Pratama]

not bad, but the laguage is more difficult than another books that related a linguistics

[Hataypho]

thoery about semantic

[Manshora]

nice