Title: Semantics and Pragmatics: Meaning in Language and Discourse
Abstract: * Word meaning, sentence meaning, speaker meaning * Concepts * Sentence Meaning * Sentential connectives * Quantified expressions and predicate logic * Syntax and semantics of predicate logic: an overview * Referring expressions and propositional attitude reports * Topic, focus and presupposition * Deictic expressions * Implicature *What is said and the semantics/pragmatics interface * Temporality * Dynamic semantics and Discourse Representation Theory * Speech acts and intentionality * Linguistic politeness * Cross-cultural pragmatics * Metaphor
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-09-20
Language: en
Type: book
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