Semantic Analysis A Practical Introduction,9780198700173

Semantic Analysis A Practical Introduction

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ISBN13: 9780198700173
ISBN10: 0198700172
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Pub. Date: 1998-07-09
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Semantic Analysis is a lively and clearly written introduction to the study of meaning in language, and to the language-culture connection. Goddard covers traditional and contemporary issues and approaches with the relationship between semantics, conceptualization, and culture as a key theme.He also details a number of case studies that draw on a wide range of material from non-Indo-European languages, particularly Australian Aboriginal languages and Malay, on which the author is an authority.

Author Biography


Cliff Goddard joined the Department of Linguistics at The University of New England in 1990. He has collaborated closely with Anna Wierzbicka in the development of the "natural semantic metalanguage" approach to semantics.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Figure Credits
xiii(2)
Typographical Conventions and Symbols
xv
1. Semantics: The Study of Meaning
1(25)
1.1 Language and meaning
1(2)
1.2 The nature of meaning
3(3)
1.3 Linguistic approaches to meaning
6(5)
1.4 Issues in semantic theory
11(5)
1.5 Semantic phenomena
16(6)
Exercises and discussion questions
22(3)
Suggestions for further reading
25(1)
2. Three Traditions: Lexicography, Logic, and Structuralism
26(30)
2.1 The pitfalls of defining
26(5)
2.2 Accuracy in a definition
31(5)
2.3 The logical tradition
36(3)
2.4 Some logical concepts used in semantics
39(4)
2.5 Classical Componential Analysis (CA)
43(7)
2.6 Componential analysis in generative grammar
50(3)
Exercises and discussion questions
53(2)
Suggestions for further reading
55(1)
3. Contemporary Approaches, Contemporary Issues
56(30)
3.1 The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach
56(5)
3.2 Doing reductive paraphrase explications
61(3)
3.3 An abstract metalanguage: Ray Jackendoff's conceptual semantics
64(5)
3.4 New approaches: frames and scenarios
69(2)
3.5 New phenomena: prototypes
71(6)
3.6 Metaphors and image schemas
77(5)
Exercises and discussion questions
82(3)
Suggestions for further reading
85(1)
4. The Semantics of Emotions
86(25)
4.1 Theories of the emotions
86(2)
4.2 Semantic components of emotion words
88(3)
4.3 Comparisons between some English emotions
91(5)
4.4 `Culture-related' emotions
96(4)
4.5 Three `anger' words in Yankunytjatjara
100(6)
Exercises and discussion questions
106(4)
Suggestions for further reading
110(1)
5. Colours
111(25)
5.1 Colour naming around the world
111(6)
5.2 Colour vision
117(3)
5.3 `Defining' colour meanings in neural terms
120(4)
5.4 Towards a conceptual analysis of colour
124(3)
5.5 Unravelling colour meanings
127(4)
5.6 Colour meanings across languages
131(3)
Exercises and discussion questions
134(1)
Suggestions for further reading
135(1)
6. Speech-Act Verbs
136(29)
6.1 What is a speech act?
136(4)
6.2 Searle's approach
140(5)
6.3 Reductive paraphrase of speech-act verbs
145(9)
6.4 Cultural aspects of speech acts
154(9)
Exercises and discussion questions
163(1)
Suggestions for further reading
164(1)
7. Discourse Particles and Interjections
165(30)
7.1 Describing particles and interjections
165(4)
7.2 Three English particles: or, too, and well
169(8)
7.3 Some particles in other languages
177(7)
7.4 A fistful of interjections
184(7)
Exercises and discussion questions
191(3)
Suggestions for further reading
194(1)
8. Motion
195(29)
8.1 Approaches to space and motion
196(7)
8.2 How to know whether you're coming or going
203(10)
8.3 Motion verbs in Arrernte
213(5)
8.4 Motion verbs in other languages
218(3)
Exercises and discussion questions
221(2)
Suggestions for further reading
223(1)
9. Artefacts and Animals
224(36)
9.1 Artefact meanings
224(6)
9.2 The meaning of cup and mug
230(8)
9.3 The semantics of `folk biology'
238(7)
9.4 The meaning of cats
245(6)
9.5 Outstanding issues
251(5)
Exercises and discussion questions
256(3)
Suggestions for further reading
259(1)
10. Causatives
260(34)
10.1 How basic is BECAUSE?
260(6)
10.2 Conventional descriptions of causatives
266(3)
10.3 Productive causatives across languages
269(8)
10.4 Some causative verbs in English
277(8)
10.5 Causation and culture
285(5)
Exercises and discussion questions
290(3)
Suggestions for further reading
293(1)
11. Grammatical Categories
294(30)
11.1 Pronominal systems
295(6)
11.2 Noun and numeral classifiers
301(10)
11.3 Locational deixis
311(3)
11.4 Evidentials and experiencer constructions
314(3)
11.5 Experiencer constructions
317(3)
11.6 Concluding remarks
320(1)
Exercises and discussion questions
321(2)
Suggestions for further reading
323(1)
12. New Developments
324(32)
12.1 The expanding semantic metalanguage
324(5)
12.2 New work on NSM syntax
329(7)
12.3 Language acquisition
336(5)
12.4 Cultural scripts
341(6)
12.5 Non-verbal communication
347(6)
Discussion questions
353(2)
Suggestions for further reading
355(1)
Solutions to Selected Exercises 356(23)
References 379(22)
Language Index 401(2)
General Index 403

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