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Kant, Immanuel --- Kant, Immanuel, --- Sémantique --- XVIIIe-XXe s., 1701-2000 --- Philosophie --- Vienne --- Semantics (Philosophy) - History. --- Carnap, rudolf (1891-1970) --- Cercle de vienne --- Positivisme logique --- Theory of knowledge --- Semantics (Philosophy)

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This volume outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve attention in pragmatic research in their own right, and it highlights the need to understand them and to explore pragmatic effects and pragmatic theorising.

Pragmatics. --- Fiction --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Pragmatics --- English language --- English literature

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How are humorous meanings generated and interpreted? Understanding a joke involves knowledge of the language code (a matter mostly of semantics) and background knowledge necessary for making the inferences to get the joke (a matter of pragmatics). This book introduces and critiques a wide range of semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour, such as systemic functional linguistics, speech acts, politeness and relevance theory, emphasising not only conceptual but also interpersonal and textual meanings. Exploiting recent corpus-based research, it suggests that much humour can be accounted for by the overriding of lexical priming. Each chapter's discussion topics and suggestions for further reading encourage a critical approach to semantic and pragmatic theory. Written by an experienced lecturer on the linguistics of the English language, this is an entertaining and user-friendly textbook for advanced students of semantics, pragmatics and humour studies.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Pragmatics --- Discourse analysis --- Wit and humor --- Semantics --- Inference --- History and criticism --- Humour --- Analyse du discours --- Mot d'esprit (psychanalyse) --- Discourse analysis. --- Inference. --- Pragmatics. --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- History and criticism. --- Linguistics --- Semantics. --- Semantics (Philosophy). --- Semantics (philosophy). --- Language arts & disciplines --- Intension (Philosophy) --- Logical semantics --- Semantics (Logic) --- Semeiotics --- Significs --- Syntactics --- Unified science --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Logical positivism --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Semiotics --- Signs and symbols --- Symbolism --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Definition (Philosophy) --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Ampliative induction --- Induction, Ampliative --- Inference (Logic) --- Reasoning --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Philosophy --- Humour. --- Analyse du discours. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Wit and humor - History and criticism

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Semantics is the study of meaning in language. This clear and comprehensive textbook is the most up-to-date introduction to the subject available for undergraduate students. It not only equips students with the concepts they need in order to understand the main aspects of semantics, it also introduces the styles of reasoning and argument which characterise the field. It contains more than 200 exercises and discussion questions designed to test and deepen readers' understanding. More inclusive than other textbooks, it clearly explains and contrasts different theoretical approaches, summarises current debates, and provides helpful suggestions for further reading. Examples are drawn both from major world languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish and English, and from minority ones. The book also highlights the connections between semantics and the wider study of human language in psychology, anthropology, and linguistics itself.

Semantics. --- Betekenis (linguïstiek). --- Semantiek. --- #KVHA:Semantiek --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- Semantics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Sémantique --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-linguistic comparisons and generalizations can be made, and how this might challenge current theory in linguistics, psychology, anthropology and philosophy. Using a shared experimental task, rounded out with studies of natural language use, specialists in each of the languages undertook extensive fieldwork for this comparative study of semantics and usage. An introduction summarizes the shared patterns and divergences in meaning and use that emerge.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Comparative linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Language and languages. --- Semantics (Philosophy). --- Deixis. --- Demonstratives. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Philosophy. --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Intension (Philosophy) --- Logical semantics --- Semantics (Logic) --- Semeiotics --- Significs --- Syntactics --- Unified science --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Logical positivism --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Semiotics --- Signs and symbols --- Symbolism --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Definition (Philosophy) --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Philology --- Linguistics