Semantics. Volume 1 / John Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyons, John, 1932-2020, author.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Semiotics.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 371 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

Cover

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Typographical conventions

Preface

Introduction: some basic terms and concepts

1.1. The meaning of 'meaning'

1.2. Use and mention

1.3. Object-language and metalanguage

1.4. Type and token

1.5. Forms, lexemes and expressions

1.6. Theories, models and data

Communication and information

2.1. What is communication?

2.2. A simple model of communication

2.3. The quantification of information

2.4. Descriptive, social and expressive information

Language as a semiotic system

3.1. Verbal and non-verbal signalling

3.2. Paralinguistic phenomena

3.3. Language and medium

3.4. The design features of language

3.5. The origin of language

Semiotics

4.1. Signification

4.2. Symbols, icons, indices and symptoms

4.3. Nominalism, realism and conceptualism

4.4. Syntactics, semantics and pragmatics

Behaviourist semantics

5.1. General attitudes

5.2. More particular features of behaviourism

5.3. Behaviourist theories of meaning

5.4. Evaluation of behaviourist semantics

Logical semantics

6.1. The formalization of semantics

6.2. Propositional calculus

6.3. Predicate calculus

6.4. The logic of classes

6.5. Time, modality and possible worlds

6.6. Model-theoretic and truth-conditional semantics

Reference, sense and denotation

7.1. Introductory

7.2. Reference

7.3. Sense

7.4. Denotation

7.5. Naming

7.6. Reference, sense and denotation in language-acquisition

Structural semantics I: semantic fields

8.1. Structuralism

8.2. The Saussurean dichotomies

8.3. Relativism and functionalism

8.4. Semantic fields

8.5. Syntagmatic lexical relations

8.6. General evaluation of the theory of semantic fields

Structural semantics II: sense relations

9.1. Opposition and contrast.

9.2. Directional, orthogonal and antipodal opposition

9.3. Non-binary contrasts

9.4. Hyponymy

9.5. Hierarchical structure in the vocabulary

9.6. Lexical gaps

9.7. Marked and unmarked terms

9.8. Part-whole relations

9.9. Componential analysis

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-99505-9

1-139-16569-0

OCLC:

935275571