Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning that draws on a wide range of linguistic approaches.
The volume seeks to build up a complete picture of what meaning is, different types of meaning, and different ways of structuring the same meaning across myriad forms and varieties of language across such domains, such as everyday speech, advertising, humour, and academic writing. Supported by data from psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research, the book combines different approaches from scholarship in semantics, including formalist, structuralist, cognitive, functionalist, and semiotics to demonstrate the ways in which meaning is expressed in words but also in word order and intonation. The book argues for a revised conceptualisation of meaning toward presenting a new perspective on semantics and its wider study in language and
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 2: Semantic structure
CHAPTER 3 Senses (1): Their types of meaning
CHAPTER 4: Senses (2):Their dimensions and uses
CHAPTER 5: Senses (3): Their internal structure
CHAPTER 6: Discussion
CHAPTER 7: Conclusion
