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Meaning: A Slim Guide to Semantics (Oxford Linguistics)
Paul Elbourne
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| #882134 in Books | Oxford University Press, USA | 2011-12-01 | 2011-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.30 x.40 x8.40l,.50 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | ||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Lively introduction to Semantics|By wbman|Meaning by Paul Elbourne was a book that was optional for my course in Semantics, but it was much more than dry academic textbook speak. It combines an introduction to very esoteric, complicated linguistic jargon with lively and stimulating anecdotes and semantic problems. The only problem I found was that it is a little expensive for|||"This is a perfect guide to what semantics is all about. The book is informative, scholarly, witty, entertaining, and funny. It doesn't shy away from hard puzzles and unsolved problems, and places semantics where it belongs: at the intersection of linguistics
Our outstanding ability to communicate is a distinguishing features of our species. To communicate is to convey meaning, but what is meaning? How do words combine to give us the meanings of sentences? And what makes a statement ambiguous or nonsensical? These questions and many others are addressed in Paul Elbourne's fascinating guide. He opens by asking what kinds of things the meanings of words and sentences could be: are they, for example, abstract objects or psychol...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Meaning: A Slim Guide to Semantics (Oxford Linguistics) | Paul Elbourne. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.