Semantics: Volume 1 (v. 1)

John Lyons
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Revised ed., 6/24/1977
EAN 9780521291651, ISBN10: 0521291658

Paperback, 388 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

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.

Typographical conventions
Preface
1. Introduction
some basic terms and concepts
2. Communication and information
3. Language as a semiotic system
4. Semiotics
5. Behaviourist semantics
6. Logical semantics
7. References, sense and denotation
8. Structural semantics I
semantic fields
9. Structural semantics II
sense relations
Bibliography
Index.