Semantics: Volume 2

John Lyons (Author)

9780521291866, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 October 1977

540 pages
22.6 x 15.3 x 4 cm, 0.79 kg

'Volume 2 covers so wide a range of topics, and the detailed issues raised are often so complex and technical, that it is rather difficult to give an adequate impression of the subtle originality which permeates almost all its discussions … At any rate, volume 2 of Professor Lyons' book will certainly have to be read with care by all who are professionally interested in the nature of language.' Jonathan Cohen, The Times Literary Supplement

This book, which can be read independently, deals with more specifically linguistic problems in semantics and contains substantial original material.

Typographical conventions
Preface
1. Introduction: some basic terms and concepts
2. Communication and information
3. Language as a semiotic system
4. Semiotics
5. Behaviourist semantics
6. Logical semantics
7. References, sense and denotation
8. Structural semantics I: semantic fields
9. Structural semantics II: sense relations
Bibliography
Index of subjects
Index of personal names.

Subject Areas: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc [CFG]