| Description | | - first comprehensive textbook covering cross-cultural and cross-linguistic semantics
- interdisciplinary appeal
- draws on data from a wide range of non-Indo-European languages
- the author writes in a clear, lively, and attractive style
| Semantic Analysis
is a lively and clearly written introduction to the study of meaning in language, and to the language-culture connection. Cliff Goddard covers essential background on traditional and contemporary issues and approaches, and then takes the reader through a series of case studies in descriptive semantics. He includes topics such as emotions, speech acts, colours, concrete
objects, motion, causative verbs, and grammatical categories.
The author draws on a rich range of material from a diversity of languages, including Arrernte, Ewe, Japanese, Malay, Polish, Spanish, and Yankunytjatjara. The main method used is reductive paraphrase in natural language, an approach which is rigorous yet accessible, and each chapter has a selection of interesting and often
thought-provoking exercises to involve students in practical semantic analysis. This is the first real textbook on cross-cultural, cross-linguistic semantics.
Series Information
Series ISBN: 0-19-961833-X (Cloth); 0-19-9618348 (Paper)
Series Editors: Professor Keith Brown (Essex), Professor Eve V. Clark (Stanford), Professor Lesley Milroy (Michigan and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Dr
Jim Miller (Edinburgh), Professor Geoffrey K. Pullum (UC Santa Cruz), and Professor Peter Roach (Reading)
Series Description:
Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics is a new series of course textbooks for second and third-year undergraduate, and postgraduate university students. It is assumed that the student will have completed a first-year introductory course in general linguistics. The
books will be suitable for students specializing in linguistics, or taking linguistics options as part of a languages, humanities, or social sciences degree. Other books in the series are Linguistic Reconstruction
by Anthony Fox and Principles and Parameters
by Peter Culicover.
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Readership: Second-year undergraduates in linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, and cross-cultural communication.
| Contents |
Preface
1.
Semantics: The Study of Meaning
2.
Three Traditions: Lexicography, Logic, and Structuralism
3.
Contemporary Approaches, Contemporary Issues
4.
The Semantics of Emotions
5.
Colours
6.
Speech-act Verbs
7.
Discourse Particles and Interjections
8.
Motion
9.
Artefacts and Animals
10.
Causatives
11.
Grammatical Categories
12.
New Developments
Solutions to Selected Exercises
Bibliography
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Cliff Goddard, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of New England
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| Links to web resources and related information | More in the same subject area:
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