Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction

Preface List of symbols and typographical conventions Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Metalinguistic preliminaries Part II. Lexical Meaning: 2. Words as meaningful units 3. Defining the meaning of words 4. The structural approach Part III. Sentence-Meaning: 5. Meaningful and meaningless sentences 6. Sentence-meaning and propositional content 7. The formalisation of sentence-meaning Part IV. Utterance-Meaning: 8. Speech acts and illocutionary force 9. Text and discourse context and co-text 10. The subjectivity of utterance Suggestions for further reading Bibliography Index.