How Words Mean introduces a new approach to the role of words and other linguistic units in the construction of meaning. It does so by addressing the interaction between non …
Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics is a comprehensive new reference work aiming to systematically describe all aspects of the study of meaning in language. It synthesizes in one …
C Paradis - The encyclopedia of applied linguistics, 2012 - portal.research.lu.se
Lexical semantics is an academic discipline concerned with the meaning of words. Lexical semanticists are interested in what words mean, why they mean what they mean, how they …
The article provides an introduction to the study of meaning in modern semantics. Major tenets, tools, and goals of semantic theorizing are illustrated by discussing typical …
WH Youngren - College English, 1968 - publicationsncte.org
SINCE THE INFLUENCE of general semantics is certainly not as strong today as it was, say, in the forties, it may seem strange for an essay about it of this length to appear (or even be …
C Goddard, A Wierzbicka - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The words and grammar of any language encode a vast array of complex prepackaged concepts, most of them language‐specific and culture‐related. These concepts are …