This elementary coursebook has been carefully planned to introduce students to all the main elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Students begin by discovering the value and fascination of studying semantics, and move on to such topics as sense and reference, basic sense relations, simple logic, word meaning, and interpersonal meaning. Each unit of the course includes short sections of explanation and exemplification followed by stimulating practice exercises for the student to complete. Sections of answers and comment enable students accurately to monitor their progress through the course. The innovatory pedagogical structure will be helpful to students following introductory courses in Linguistics and to intermediate students who will find it a useful revision text. The coursebook will also meet the needs of those who wish genuinely to teach themselves about semantics.
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'The best and most accessible textbook in its field.' Keith Green, Sheffield Hallam University
'There is no other book on the market which succeeds so well in integrating theory and practice.' Alexander Bergs, University of Düsseldorf
'An excellent introductory first step. It covers all the main topics which any course on meaning in language will cover, and presents difficult concepts in an easy, accessible way.' Billy Clark, Middlesex University --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
'There is no other book on the market which succeeds so well in integrating theory and practice.' Alexander Bergs, University of Düsseldorf
'An excellent introductory first step. It covers all the main topics which any course on meaning in language will cover, and presents difficult concepts in an easy, accessible way.' Billy Clark, Middlesex University --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Introduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answers and comment provided.
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I stumbled across this book in the English-language stacks at our university library (2001 edition). As an English teacher and a long-time student of several foreign languages, I have a fairly broad background in general linguistics. But before I read this book, I didn't have much background in the field of semantics.Some textbooks don't work so well as teach-yourself references, but this book is well suited to that purpose. At the beginning of each chapter is a pre-test which helps you to be certain you have mastered the items taught in the previous chapter. That pretest is a great tool for checking your progress and ensuring that you understand the concepts being presented. The book teaches you the technical terms you need to know, but the language of the book itself is well suited even to complete laymen. I suppose it would be advisable to tackle a good intro book on linguistics (such as Fromkin & Rodman's An Introduction To Language, an excellent intro textbook which uses humor in an effective way to increase the pleasure of learning, now available in its 6th edition I've just learned) before moving on to this one, but I'm fairly confident that the average reader with no linguistic background at all could probably handle the material in this book with little difficulty. At the end of the book, the authors include a list of useful references for furthering one's knowledge of semantics and pragmatics. I have cursorily examined a few of these, and they seem like very logical next steps.
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I sampled the Kindle version of this book and was disappointed. It wasn't well translated to the Kindle. Some of the notes and comments were copied over as images, not text - so you can't control the font size and have to zoom in on the image block to read it. And overall the content was hard to navigate using the Kindle. So while the content itself MIGHT be good, it's not good in the Kindle format.
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The rest of this book can be regarded as an example of semantics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
review the relevant unit, direct illocution, commissive illocution, binary antonymy, binary antonyms, many referring expressions, linguistic semanticist, commissive act, thing apologized, equative sentence, following two utterances, gradable antonyms, symmetric predicate, logical formulae, meaning postulates, entry test, deictic terms, felicity conditions, generic sentence, identity predicate, representing propositions, sincerity condition, illocutionary act, definite noun phrases, analytic sentence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Practice Given, Prime Minister, Clark Kent, Comment These, Concise Oxford Dictionary, Johan Brzown, Practice Write, Comment There, Practice Look, Comment Some, Example John, Comment Note, Leader of the Conservative Party, Practice Imagine, All Denis, Humpty Dumpty, Practice Say, Comment Such, Does John, Does Mary, Practice According, Practice Listed New!
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The rest of this book can be regarded as an example of semantics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
review the relevant unit, direct illocution, commissive illocution, binary antonymy, binary antonyms, many referring expressions, linguistic semanticist, commissive act, thing apologized, equative sentence, following two utterances, gradable antonyms, symmetric predicate, logical formulae, meaning postulates, entry test, deictic terms, felicity conditions, generic sentence, identity predicate, representing propositions, sincerity condition, illocutionary act, definite noun phrases, analytic sentence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Practice Given, Prime Minister, Clark Kent, Comment These, Concise Oxford Dictionary, Johan Brzown, Practice Write, Comment There, Practice Look, Comment Some, Example John, Comment Note, Leader of the Conservative Party, Practice Imagine, All Denis, Humpty Dumpty, Practice Say, Comment Such, Does John, Does Mary, Practice According, Practice Listed New!
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