0. Introduction. What I have to say on the relevance of semantic analysis to the teaching of
Spanish is the product of research and practice; it is both report and prognosis. It may seem …

Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic
semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of …

Empirical evidence is at the heart of research on natural language meaning. Surprisingly,
however, discussions of what constitutes evidence in research on meaning are almost non …

By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving
tongue-or by articulation of hands and bodies, language users can give expression to their …

As children accumulate words, they build up semantic domains. In doing this, they start to
link the meanings of words, depending on how they are related to each other. They rely on …

In Word Meaning, Richard Hudson introduces readers to the techniques of lexical semantic
analysis. Word Meaning:* is based on a problem-solving approach to language* introduces …

The question of knowledge induction, ie how children are able to learn so much about, say,
what words mean without any explicit instruction, is one that has vexed philosophers …

One of the most important functions of language is to facilitate the 'transmission'of thought
from one language user to another. A number of scholars, including Sperber and Wilson …

How do we come to give names to things? Why do some things have names while others do
not? What is the nature of the relationship between the reality we perceive and the language …