Semantics John I. Saeed's is an English-language textbook on linguistic semantics. This title is intended for professionals and students who want to delve into meaning communication within language.
The fifth edition of this introductory book provides an up-to-date overview of theories and concepts in semantics. It includes a completely new chapter on inferential pragmatics and covers topics such as truth-conditional meaning and Relevance Theory. The book combines clarity with completeness and clarifies the role of semantics in contemporary linguistics.
In addition, the revised chapter discusses recent developments and integrates cognitive semantics and contextual language aspects. This edition includes exercises with answers, new examples, and literature references.
The book thematically connects to topics such as discourse analysis, stylistics, and linguistics, and offers a solid foundation for anyone who wants to study linguistic meaning.
Series: Introducing Linguistics