Semantics: A Coursebook
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- Author：James R. Hurford
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Summary
This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple， step-by-step fashion。 Each unit includes short sections of explanation with examples， followed by stimulating practice exercises to complete in the book。 Feedback and comment sections follow each exercise to enable students to monitor their progress。 No previous background in semantics is assumed， as students begin by discovering the value and fascination of the subject and then move through all key topics in the field， including sense and reference， simple logic， word meaning and interpersonal meaning。 New study guides and exercises have been added to the end of each unit to help reinforce and test learning。 A completely new unit on non-literal language and metaphor， plus updates throughout the text significantly expand the scope of the original edition to bring it up-to-date with modern teaching of semantics for introductory courses in linguistics as well as intermediate students。
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Nhatlinh
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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers。 To view it， click here。 i think it need for me
Montse
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Hay libros de divulgación semántica más actuales， más claros y mejor planteados que este。 Lo mejor que tiene son las ilustraciones absurdas para crear universos del discurso a partir de lo que desarrollar los ejercicios， pero cualquier cosa que aparezca aquí la encontraréis mejor desarrollada en Escandell Vidal o en Moreno Cabrera。
Amin Abootalebi Yazdi
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One of the best books to start the study of semantics。 Rich in the matter of examples and exercises and based on modern models， i。e。 cognitive sciences， this book is my first recommendation to anyone who wants to become a linguist。
Caroline
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I used this textbook for my English semantics class and read almost the entire thing。 For a textbook， I really enjoyed it。 I like the way it is organized， interspersing lots of examples and practice problems throughout the text to reinforce the concepts。 It can actually be kind of humorous at times too， especially the illustrations。 If you study linguistics， I recommend this book as a good introduction to semantics。
Allison
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This is a decent introductory guide to semantics。 It can overbear you with examples and practice questions， but for a lot of the chapters， they are quite useful。 The examples allow you to see how the concepts are found and used in everyday language。
محمد حسين ضاحي
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This is an introductory coursebook to the fields of semantics and pragmatics， and partly to discourse analysis which is a distinct research topic of LinguisticsI write this review after some time of finishing the book。 As a non-native speaker of English and a beginner in learning semantics， I have much enjoyed the book and the topic though it did take me some time to finish- even more time than necessary- partly because I followed the instructions of answering the tasks used for presentation and This is an introductory coursebook to the fields of semantics and pragmatics， and partly to discourse analysis which is a distinct research topic of LinguisticsI write this review after some time of finishing the book。 As a non-native speaker of English and a beginner in learning semantics， I have much enjoyed the book and the topic though it did take me some time to finish- even more time than necessary- partly because I followed the instructions of answering the tasks used for presentation and of working out the exercises on each chapter in notebook for that purpose （till the half of the book when I felt confident of absorbing the points explained and being able to follow the argument）。I recommend it to every one even to the advanced because it helps focus on and distinguishes the ideas of reference， sense and meaning。 It distinguishes the utterance from the sentence from a proposition， then it builds upon to introduce referring expressions， sense properties and a logical way for representing 'simple' propositions。 Also， it discusses speech acts， illocutions and implicature which are indispensable concepts for pragmatics and discourse analysis。 。。。more
Reem Salah
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The practices included in this book is the best solution with the problem of learning Semantics。Every practice before a definition or a comment decreases the abstractness of the information。I really enjoyed studying it this semester。
David Harris
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* 20 of 21 Amazon readers found the following review helpful ** A Great Teach-Yourself Resource *I stumbled across this book in the English-language stacks at our university library （2001 edition）。 As an English teacher and a long-time student of several foreign languages， I have a fairly broad background in general linguistics。 But before I read this book， I didn't have much background in the field of semantics。Some textbooks don't work so well as teach-yourself references， but this book is wel * 20 of 21 Amazon readers found the following review helpful ** A Great Teach-Yourself Resource *I stumbled across this book in the English-language stacks at our university library （2001 edition）。 As an English teacher and a long-time student of several foreign languages， I have a fairly broad background in general linguistics。 But before I read this book， I didn't have much background in the field of semantics。Some textbooks don't work so well as teach-yourself references， but this book is well suited to that purpose。 At the beginning of each chapter is a pre-test which helps you to be certain you have mastered the items taught in the previous chapter。 That pretest is a great tool for checking your progress and ensuring that you understand the concepts being presented。The book teaches you the technical terms you need to know， but the language of the book itself is well suited even to complete laymen。 I suppose it would be advisable to tackle a good intro book on linguistics （such as Fromkin & Rodman's An Introduction To Language， an excellent intro textbook which uses humor in an effective way to increase the pleasure of learning， now available in its 6th edition I've just learned） before moving on to this one， but I'm fairly confident that the average reader with no linguistic background at all could probably handle the material in this book with little difficulty。At the end of the book， the authors include a list of useful references for furthering one's knowledge of semantics and pragmatics。 I have cursorily examined a few of these， and they seem like very logical next steps。 。。。more
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