This lively textbook introduces students and scholars to practical and precise methods for articulating the meanings of words and sentences, and for revealing connections between language and culture. Topics range over emotions, speech acts, words for animals and artefacts, motion, activity verbs, causatives, discourse particles, and nonverbal communication. Alongside English, it features a wide range of other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, and Australian Aboriginal languages. Undergraduates, graduate students and professional linguists alike will benefit from Goddard's wide-ranging summaries, clear explanations and analytical depth. Meaning is fundamental to language and linguistics. This book shows that the study of meaning can be rigorous, insightful and exciting.
| ISBN: | 9780199560288 |
| Publication date: | 4th August 2011 |
| Author: | Cliff Goddard |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 490 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics |
| Genres: |
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Anthropology |
This lively textbook introduces students and scholars to practical and precise methods for articulating the meanings of words and sentences, and for revealing connections between language and culture. Topics range over emotions, speech acts, words for animals and artefacts, motion, activity verbs, causatives, discourse particles, and nonverbal communication. Alongside English, it features a wide range of other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, and Australian Aboriginal languages. Undergraduates, graduate students and professional linguists alike will benefit from Goddard's wide-ranging summaries, clear explanations and analytical depth. Meaning is fundamental to language and linguistics. This book shows that the study of meaning can be rigorous, insightful and exciting.
Semantic Analysis features in the following genres: Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Anthropology
Semantic Analysis is available in Paperback
Semantic Analysis was written by Cliff Goddard and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD
Semantic Analysis has 490 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics series
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