An introduction to English semantics and pragmatics / Patrick Griffiths ; revised by Chris Cummins.

By: Griffiths, Patrick, 1942-2012 [author.]
Contributor(s): Cummins, Chris [editor.]
Language: English Series: Edinburgh textbooks on the English language: Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023Edition: Third editionDescription: ix, 182 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781399504614Subject(s): English language -- Semantics -- Problems, exercises, etc | English language -- Usage -- Problems, exercises, etc | English language -- Semantics | Pragmatics | Englisch | Semantik | PragmatikDDC classification: 420.143 LOC classification: PE1585 | .G85 2017
Contents:
Studying meaning -- Sense relations -- Nouns -- Adjectives -- Verbs -- Tense and aspect -- Modality, scope and quantification -- Pragmatic inference -- Figurative language -- Utterances in context -- Doing things with words
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Previous edition: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Studying meaning -- Sense relations -- Nouns -- Adjectives -- Verbs -- Tense and aspect -- Modality, scope and quantification -- Pragmatic inference -- Figurative language -- Utterances in context -- Doing things with words

Patrick Griffiths was Professor of English at Beppu University, Japan.

Christ Cummins is Reader in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh.

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