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UNDERSTANDING ENGL]SH.SEMANTICS
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In 1000 cuốn, khổ 14,5 x 20,5 tai Nhà in Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội
Số xuất bản: 10/422/XB-QLXB ngày 7/4/2004 Số trích ngang: 89 KH/XB
Trang 4CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements PART 1 Chapter 1 Semantics and the subject matter of semantics
1 What does semantics do?
2 The meanings of “meaning” 3 Theories of meaning 4 Semantic properties 5 Components of word-meaning 6 Lexical meaning and grammatical meaning 7 Sentence arid utterance meaning 8 Discourse
Chapter 2 Word meaning 1 Words as meaningful units
Trang 53 Lexical and grammatical meaning revisited 4 Homonymy and polysemy 5 Synonymy 6 Lexical variants and paronyms 7 Antonymy
8 Full and empty words
Chapter 3 Dimensions of word meaning 1 Introduction
2 Naming
3 Denotation and reference 4 Sense and reference
5 Connotation and denotation revisited
Trang 6PART 2: SENTENCE MEANING 143
Chapter 5 The meaning of the sentence 143
1 Introduction 143
2 Grammaticality, acceptability and 146
meaningfulness
3 The principle of compositionality 148
4 Variables in the function of sentence 150
meaning
5 The representational meaning 154
6 The interpersonal meaning 169
Chapter 6 Modality 174
‘1 Some views on modality 174
2 Type of modality: epistemic and deontic 176
3 Mood as epistemic and deontic modality 179
4 Personal modality 180
5 Modal lexical verbs 183
6 Modality in subordinate clauses 184
Chapter 7 Sentence meaning and 188
propositional content
Introduction 188
Trang 72 Thematic meaning - 206
3 Simple and composite sentences ae Ỳ » 208
4 Truth functionality 209
5 Sentence types and their meaning _ 213
' PART 3: UTTERANCE MEANING © 223
Chapter 8 The meaning of the utterance 223
1 Introduction 223
2 Context 224
3 Utterances , 226
4 Locutionary act 229
5 Iocutionary force and perlocutionary acts 230
"6 Statements, questions and directives 235
7 Entailment: assertion and presupposition 237
8 Implicatures 242
9 Reference 243
10 Modality - 247