Semantics - Theories / Claudia Maienborn, Klaus Heusinger, Paul Portner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heusinger, Klaus, Editor.

Maienborn, Claudia, Editor.

Portner, Paul, Editor.

Series:

Mouton reader.

Mouton Reader

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material gathered here is perfect for anyone who needs a detailed and accessible introduction to the important semantic theories. Designed for a wide audience, it will be of great value to linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language. The book covers theories of lexical semantics, cognitively oriented approaches to semantics, compositional theories of sentence semantics, and discourse semantics. This clear, elegant explanation of the key theories in semantics research is essential reading for anyone working in the area.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Cognitive Semantics: An overview

2. Prototype theory

3. Frame Semantics

4. Conceptual Semantics

5. Two-level Semantics: Semantic Form and Conceptual Structure

6. Word meaning and world knowledge

7. Model-theoretic semantics

8. Event semantics

9. Situation Semantics and the ontology of natural language

10. Situation Semantics: From indexicality to metacommunicative interaction

11. Discourse Representation Theory

12. Dynamic semantics

13. Rhetorical relations

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110589245

3110589249

9783110587142

3110587149

OCLC:

1091694379