Significance in language : a theory of semantics / Jim Feist.
This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning which draws on a wide range of linguistic approaches. The volume seeks to build up a complete picture of what meaning...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Routledge studies in linguistics.
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| Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning which draws on a wide range of linguistic approaches. The volume seeks to build up a complete picture of what meaning is, different types of meaning, and different ways of structuring the same meaning across myriad forms and varieties of language across such domains, such as everyday speech, advertising, humor, and academic writing. Supported by data from psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research, the book combines different approaches from scholarship in semantics, including formalist, structuralist, cognitive, functionalist, and semiotics to demonstrate the ways in which meaning is expressed in words but also in word order and intonation. The book argues for a revised conceptualization of meaning toward presenting a new perspective on semantics and its wider study in language and linguistic research. This book will appeal to scholars interested in meaning in language in such fields as linguistics, semantics, and semiotics. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781003259381 1003259383 9781000555172 1000555178 9781032194776 1032194774 9781032194783 1032194782 |