語義學引論

《語義學引論》內容簡介：Linguisticsemantics:AnIntroducitionisthesuccessortoSirJohnLyons'stextbookLanguage,Meaningandconteext(1981).Whilepreservingthegeneralstructureoftheearlierbook.theauthorhassubstantiallyexpandeditsscopetointroduceseveraltopicsthatwerenotpreviouslydiscussed,andtotakeaccountofnewdevelopmentsinlinguisticsemanticsoverthepastdecade.Theresultingworkisaninvaluableguidetothesubject.offeringclarificationsofitsspecializedtermsandexplainingitsrelationshiptoformalandphilosophicalsemanticsandtocontemporarypragmatics.withitsclearandaccessiblestyleitwillappealtoawidestudentreadership.

作者：(英國)萊昴斯(JohnLyons)萊昴斯（JohnLyons）isMasteroftrinityHallintheUniversityofcambridge.HeisafellowoftheBritishAcademyandanHonoraryMemberoftheLinguisticsocietyofAmerica.Hismanypublicationsincludestructuralsemantics(1964).IntroductiontoTheoreticalLinguistics(1968).Chomsky(1970),Semantics(2vols.,1977).NaturalLanguageandUniversalGrammar(wov.1ofhiscollectedessays,1991),andLinguisticsemantics:AnIntroduction(1995).

Preface by Halliday

Preface

List of symbols and typographical conventions

Part 1 Setting the scene

1 Metalinguistic pteliminaries

1.0 Introduction

1.1 The meaning of 'meaning'

1.2 Themetalanguageof semantics

1.3 Linguistic and non-linguistic semantics

1.4 Language,speech andutterancelangue and 'parole';'competence'and 'performance'

1.5 Words :forms and meanings

1.6 Sentences and utterances;text,conversation and siscourse

1.7 Theories of meaning and kinds of meaning

Part 2 Lexical Meaning

2 Words as meanignfufl nuits

2.0 Introduction

2.1 Forms and expressions

2.2 Homonymy and polysemy;lexical and grammaticalambiguity

2.3 Synonymy

2.4 Full and empty word-forms

2.5 Lexical mening and grammatical meaning

3 Defining the meaning of words

4 The structural approach

Part 3 Sentence -meanign

5 Meaningful andmeaninglesssentences

5.0 Introduction

5.1 Grammaticality, acceptability and meaningfulness

5.2 The meaningfulness of sentences

5.3 Corrigibility and translatability

5.4 Verifiability and verificationism

5.5 Propositions and propositional content

5.6 Non-factualsignificance and emotivism

5.7truth-conditions

5.8 Tautologies and contradictions

6 Sentence-meaning andpropositional content

6.0 Introduction

6.1 Thematic meaning

6.2 Simple and composite sentences

6.3 Truth-functionality (1): conjunction anddisjunction

6.4 Truth-functionality (2): implication

6.5 Truth-functionality (3): negation

6.6 Sentence-type, clause-type and mood

6.7 The meaning of interrogative and declarative sentences

6.8 Other kinds of non-declaratives: imperatives,exclamatives, volitives, etc.

7 The formalization of sentence-meaning

7.0 Introduction

7.1 Formal semantics and linguistic semantics

7.2 Compositionality, grammatical and semantic isomorphism, and saving the appearances

7.3 Deep structure and semantic representations

7.4 Projection-rules and selection-restrictions

7.5 Montague grammar

7.6 Possible worlds

Part 4 Utterance -meaning

8 Speech acts and illocutionaryforce

8.0 Introduction

8.1 Utterances

8.2 Locutionary acts

8.3 Illocutionary force

8.4 Statements, questions and directives

9 Text and discourse; context and co-text

9.0 Introduction

9.1 Text-sentences

9.2 What is a text? And what is text?

9.3 Utterance-meaning and context

9.4 Implication and conventional implicatures

9.5 Conversational implicatures

9.6 What is context?

10 The subjectivity of utterance

10.0 Introduction

10.1 Reference

10.2 Indexicality and deixis

10.3 The grammatical category of tense

10.4 The grammatical category of aspect

10.5 Modality, modal expressions and mood

10.6 Subjectivity and locutionary agency

Suggestions for further reading

Bibliography

Index

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