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Meaning : semantics, pragmatics, cognition / Betty J. Birner.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 Description: xix, 301 pages; ill. volume 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780367028800
  • 9780367028848
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: MeaningDDC classification:
  • 401/.43 23/eng/20221018
LOC classification:
  • (GSMAELS) P 325 .2023 B57
Contents:
What is language? -- Semantics I: Word meaning -- Semantics II: Sentence meaning -- Pragmatics I: The Cooperative Principle -- Pragmatics II: Speech acts -- Language structure -- Interfaces I: Semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy -- Interfaces II: Structure and meaning -- Meaning and human cognition -- Meaning, minds, and machines.
Summary: "Meaning addresses the fundamental question of human language interaction: what it is to mean, and how we communicate our meanings to others. Experienced textbook writer and eminent researcher Betty J. Birner gives balanced coverage to semantics and pragmatics, emphasizing interactions between the two, and discusses other fields of language study such as syntax, neurology, philosophy of language, and artificial intelligence in terms of their interfaces with linguistic meaning"-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: English Language Studies, Master of Arts in
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is language? -- Semantics I: Word meaning -- Semantics II: Sentence meaning -- Pragmatics I: The Cooperative Principle -- Pragmatics II: Speech acts -- Language structure -- Interfaces I: Semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy -- Interfaces II: Structure and meaning -- Meaning and human cognition -- Meaning, minds, and machines.

"Meaning addresses the fundamental question of human language interaction: what it is to mean, and how we communicate our meanings to others. Experienced textbook writer and eminent researcher Betty J. Birner gives balanced coverage to semantics and pragmatics, emphasizing interactions between the two, and discusses other fields of language study such as syntax, neurology, philosophy of language, and artificial intelligence in terms of their interfaces with linguistic meaning"-- Provided by publisher.

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