PDF Nguyen Hoa (2004). Understanding Semantics (English Semantics)

Nguyen Hoa (2004). Understanding English Semantics
272 pages
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Part 1; Chapter 1: Semantics and the subject matter of semantics; Chapter 2: Word meaning; Chapter 3: Dimensions of word meaning; Chapter 4: Sense relations—Part 2: Sentence meaning: Chapter 5: The meaning of the sentence; Chapter 6: Modality; Chapter 7: Sentence meaning and propositional content

PART 1
Chapter 1. Semantics and the subject matter of
semantics
I, What docs semantics do?
29
2, The meanings of “meaning" 33
\ I heories of meaning 36
4. Semantic properties 49
5. Components of word-meaning 51
6. Lexical meaning and grammatical 54
meaning
7. Sentence and utterance meaning 55
8. Discourse 58
Chapter 2. Word meaning 66
I. Words as meaningful units
66
2. Forms and expressions 67


3. Lexical and grammatical meaning
revisited
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4. Homonymy and polysemy
5. Synonymy
6. Lexical variants and paronyms
7. Antonymy
8. Full and empty words
Chapter 3. Dimensions of word meaning
1. Introduction
2. Naming
93
3. Denotation and reference
4. Sense and reference
5. Connotation and denotation revisited
6. The change and development of meaning
7. Transference of meaning
Chapter 4, Sense relations
120
1. Introduction
120
2. Substitutional and combinatorial sense
relations
3. Other types of sense relations
4, Componential analysis
5, Entailment and the truth of sentences


PART 2: SENTENCE MEANING 143
Chapter 5. The meaning of the sentence 143
1. Introduction 143
2. (irammaticality, acceptability and 146
mcaningfulness
3. I lie principle of compositionality 148
4. Variables in the function of sentence 150
meaning
5. I he representational meaning 154
o I he interpersonal meaning 169
Chapter 6. Modality 174
1. Some views on modality 174
2. Type of modality: epistemic and deontic 176
3. Mood as epistemic and deontic modality 179
4. Personal modality 180
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5. Modal lexical verbs 183
6. Modality in subordinate clauses 184
Chapter?, Sentence meaning and 188
propositional content
Introduction 188
1, Proposition 189


2. Thematic meaning
3. Simple and composite sentences
4. Truth functionality
5. Sentence types and their meaning
PART 3: UTTERANCE MEANING
Chapter 8, The meaning of the utterance
1. Introduction
2. Context
3. Utterances
4. Locutionary act
5. Illocutionary force and perlocutionary acts
6. Statements, questions and directives
7. Entailment: assertion and presupposition
8. Implicatures
9. Reference
230
10. Modality
243
247
References
269