Patrick Griffiths - An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics

Title:
An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics
Author:
Patrick Griffiths
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Page:
206
Format:
PDF
Size:
795 Kb

I chose Edinburgh University for postgraduate studies because I wanted to learn semantics from John Lyons, one of whose books I had read. It turned out that he was not teaching semantics the year that I took the taught graduate course, but there were eventually seminars of his that I could attend, and I read more of his work. His influence can be traced in this book. It was Martin Atkinson, a fellow research assistant on an Edinburgh University Linguistics Department project, who first explained to me how the study of meaning can be split between semantics and pragmatics. Semantics is concerned with the resources (vocabulary and a system for calculating phrase-, clause- and sentence-meanings) provided by a language, and pragmatics is concerned....

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