Linguistic Semantics:An Introduction

preface by halliday

preface

list of symbols and typographical conventions

part 1 setting the scene

1 metalinguisticpreliminaries

1.0 introduction

1.1 the meaning of'meaning'

1.2 the metalanguage of semantics

1.3 linguistic and non-linguistic semantics

1.4 language, speech and utterance; 'langue' and 'parole'; 'competence' and 'performance'

1.5 words: forms and meanings

1.6 sentences and utterances; text, conversation and discourse

1.7 theories of meaning and kinds of meaning part 2 lexical meaning

2 words as meaninngful units

2.0 introduction

2.1 forms and expressions

2.2 homonymy and polysemy; lexical and grammatical ambiguity

2.3 synonymy

2.4 full and empty word-forms

2.5 lexical meaning and grammatical meaning

.3 defining the meaning of words

3.0 introduction

3.1 denotation and sense

3.2 basic and non-basic expressions

3.3 natural (and cultural) kinds

3.4 semantic prototypes

4 the structural approach

4.0 introduction

4.1 structural semantics

4.2 componential analysis

4.3 the empirical basis for componential analysis

4.4 entailment and possible worlds

4.5 sense-relations and meaning-postulates

part 3 sentence-meaning

5 meaningful and meaningless sentences

5.0 introduction

5.1 grammaticality, acceptability and meaningfulness

5.2 the meaningfulness ofsentences

5.3 corrigibility and translatability

5.4 verifiability and verificationism

5.5 propositions and propositional content

5.6 non-factual significance and emotivism

5.7 truth-conditions

5.8 tautologies and contradictions

6 sentence-meaning andpropositional content

6.0 introduction

6.1 thematic meaning

6.2 simple and composite sentences

6.3 truth-functionality (1): conjunction and disjunction

6.4 truth-functionality (2): implication

6.5 truth-functionality (3): negation

6.6 sentence-type, clause-type and mood

6.7 the meaning of interrogative and declarative sentences

6.8 other kinds ofnon-declaratives:imperatives, exclamatives, volitives, etc.

7 the formalization of sentence-meaning

7.0 introduction

7.1 formal semantics and linguistic semantics

7.2 compositionality, grammatical and semantic isomorphism, and saving the appearances

7.3 deep structure and semantic representations

7.4 projection-rules and selection-restrictions

7.5 montague grammar

7.6 possible worldspart 4 utterance-meaning

8 speech acts and illocutionary force

8.0 introduction

8.1 utterances

8.2 locutionary acts

8.3 illocutionary force

8.4 statements, questions and directives

9 text and discourse; context and co-text

9.0 introduction

9.1 text-sentences

9.2 what is a text? and what is text?

9.3 utterance-meaning and context

9.4 implication and conventional implicatures

9.5 conversational implicatures

9.6 what is context?

10 the subjectivity of utterance

10.0 introduction

10.1 reference

10.2 indexicality and deixis

10.3 the grammatical category of tense

10.4 the grammatical category of aspect

10.5 modality, modal expressions and mood

10.6 subjectivity and locutionary agency

suggestions for further reading

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