• Part 1 Fundamental Notions


• 1: Introduction


• 2: Logic and Meaning


• 3: Concepts and Meaning


• Part 2 Words and Their Meanings


• 4: Lexical Units


• 5: Contextual Variability of Word Meaning


• 6: Paradigmatic Relations of Inclusion and Identity


• 7: Paradigmatic Relations of Exclusion and Opposition


• 8: Lexical Hierarchies


• 9: Syntagmatic Semantic Relations


• 10: Describing Lexical Senses 1: Dimensions and Structures


• 11: Describing lexical Senses 2: Approaches to the Specification of Word Meanings


• 12: Extensions of Meaning


• Part 3 Grammatical Meaning


• 13: Grammatical Meaning: Nouns and Noun Phrases


• 14: Argument Structure and Transitivity


• 15: Grammatical Meaning: Verbs and Adjectives


• 16: The Semantics of Prepositions


• 17: The Semantics of Derivational Affixes


• part 4 Pragmatics


• 18: Speech Acts


• 19: Reference and Deixis


• 20: Conversational Implicatures


• Epilogue


• Answers to Questions


• References


• Author Index


• Subject Index

Alan Cruse was formerly Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Manchester.

A comprehensive introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language. Alan Cruse covers semantic matters, but also deals with topics that are usually considered to fall under pragmatics. A major aim is to highlight the richness and subtlety of meaning phenomena, rather than to expound any particular theory.