Semantics: The Study of Meaning
by Geoffrey Leech
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Semantics, as the study of meaning, is centrally concerned with man's understanding of himslef as a species that lives by communication. This book explorse this. The author stresses the contribution of sematics to the understanding of practical problems of communication and concept manipulation in modern society. He also deals with the theorectical core of the subject and considers in detail such questions as 'in what sense is semantics "scientific"? ' and 'how much can the study of show more language in use contribute to the study of meaning?' show lessTags
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Geoffrey Leech is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Lancaster University, where he has been a faculty member for over 40 years. He has published many books and articles in the fields of English grammar, stylistics, pragmatics, semantics, and corpus linguistics. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.
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Pelican Books (A1694)
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- Semantics: The Study of Meaning
- Original publication date
- 1974
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- Dutch, English, Spanish
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