Semantics and Pragmatics: Meaning in Language and Discourse

by Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt, R.H. Robins (Editor), David Denison (Editor)

Semantics is a core topic on the majority of undergraduate linguistic degree it is the study of meaning in language, both in terms of definition and the way meanings are conveyed and vary within everyday situations. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to approaches to meaning and presents the most popular and successful theories in a way that makes them accessible for undergraduates. It also explores how the boundry between semantics and pragmatics may be drawn and sums up a coherent picture of meaning in language system and in language use.

Genres: Linguistics

424 pages, Paperback

First published September 20, 2002

About the author

Katarzyna M. "Kasia" Jaszczolt (1963-) is a Polish and British linguist and philosopher. She is currently Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy of Language at the University of Cambridge, and Professorial Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge.

Jaszczolt received her D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Her academic career combines interests in meaning in natural language and in communication with interests in philosophy of language and mind, epistemology and metaphysics

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