Revised and updated to reflect recent theoretical developments in the field, Semantics, 4th
Edition, presents an engaging and accessible introduction to the study of meaning in …

Semantics is the systematic study of meaning in language. As a discipline, it is directed
toward the determination of how humans reason with language, and more specifically …

The study of meaning in language has developed dramatically over the last fifty years.
Semantics is distinctive as it not only presents a general introduction to the topic, including …

For long psycholinguistics has tried to answer the question “how children learn the meaning
of words?” Paul Bloom answers the question in his book with the same title. He argues that …

Semantics and pragmatics-the study of meaning, and meaning in context, respectively-are
two fundamental areas of linguistics, and as such are crucial to our understanding of how …

This chapter presents a theoretical review of how humans represent and process word
meaning (lexico-semantics). We start with a review of current theoretical approaches. The …

This volume is a comprehensive introduction to the study of the meaning of linguistic
expressions in English: words and sentences. In conducting the analysis, it draws on two …

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple, step-by-step
fashion. Each unit includes short sections of explanation with examples, followed by …

Linguists have taken a broad view of language and are borrowing methods and findings
from other disciplines such as cognitive and computer sciences, neurology, biology …

Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same
paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on …