Semantics: Volume 1Cambridge University Press, 1977 M06 2 - 897 pages Volume 1 provides a general and comprehensive introduction to semantics, synthesizing work on meaning and communication from many disciplines and setting semantics in the larger framework of semiotics. |
Contents
Introduction some basic terms and concepts | 1 |
12 Use and mention | 5 |
13 Objectlanguage and metalanguage | 10 |
14 Type and token | 13 |
15 Forms lexemes and expressions | 18 |
16 Theories models and data | 25 |
Communication and information | 32 |
22 A simple model of communication | 36 |
65 Time modality and possible worlds | 161 |
66 Modeltheoretic and truthconditional semantics | 167 |
Reference sense and denotation | 174 |
72 Reference | 177 |
73 Sense | 197 |
74 Denotation | 206 |
75 Naming | 215 |
76 Reference sense and denotation in languageacquisition | 224 |
23 The quantification of information | 41 |
24 Descriptive social and expressive information | 50 |
Language as a semiotic system | 57 |
32 Paralinguistic phenomena | 63 |
33 Language and medium | 67 |
34 The design features of language | 70 |
35 The origin of language | 85 |
Semiotics | 95 |
42 Symbols icons indices and symptoms | 99 |
43 Nominalism realism and conceptualism | 109 |
44 Syntactics semantics and pragmatics | 114 |
Behaviourist semantics | 120 |
52 More particular features of behaviourism | 123 |
53 Behaviourist theories of meaning | 125 |
54 Evaluation of behaviourist semantics | 133 |
Logical semantics | 138 |
62 Prepositional calculus | 141 |
63 Predicate calculus | 147 |
64 The logic of classes | 154 |
Structural semantics I semantic fields | 230 |
82 The Saussurean dichotomies | 238 |
83 Relativism and functionalism | 245 |
84 Semantic fields | 250 |
85 Syntagmatic lexical relations | 261 |
86 General evaluation of the theory of semantic fields | 266 |
Structural semantics II sense relations | 270 |
92 Directional orthogonal and antipodal opposition | 281 |
93 Nonbinary contrasts | 287 |
94 Hyponymy | 291 |
95 Hierarchical structure in the vocabulary | 295 |
96 Lexical gaps | 301 |
97 Marked and unmarked terms | 305 |
98 Partwhole relations | 311 |
99 Componential analysis | 317 |
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