内容简介
Thispracticalcoursebookintroducesallthebasicsofsemanticsinasimple,step-by-stepfashion.Eachunitincludesshortsectionsofexplanationwithexamples,followedbystimulatingpracticeexercisestocompleteinthebook.Feedbackandcommentsectionsfolloweachexercisetoenablestudentstomonitortheirprogress.Nopreviousbackgroundinsemanticsisassumed,asstudentsbeginbydiscoveringthevalueandfascinationofthesubjectandthenmovethroughallkeytopicsinthefield,includingsenseandreference,simplelogic,wordmeaningandinterpersonalmeaning.Newstudyguidesandexerciseshavebeenaddedtotheendofeachunittohelpreinforceandtestlearning.Acompletelynewunitonnon-literallanguageandmetaphor,plusupdatesthroughoutthetextsignificantlyexpandthescopeoftheoriginaleditiontobringitup-to-datewithmodernteachingofsemanticsforintroductorycoursesinlinguisticsaswellasintermediatestudents.