The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics - Second Edition - Keith Allan
Linguistic semantics and pragmatics from earliest times
The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics - Second Edition - Keith Allan
Keith Allan [+]
Monash University
Keith Allan is Professor of Linguistics at Monash University. His research interests focus mainly on aspects of meaning in language, with a secondary interest in the history and philosophy of linguistics. His books include Linguistic Meaning (2 vols, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986), Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon (with Kate Burridge, OUP, 1991), Natural Language Semantics (Blackwell, 2001), Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language (with Kate Burridge, CUP 2006), Concise Encyclopaedia of Semantics (Elsevier, 2009) and The English Language and Linguistics Companion (with Julie Bradshaw, et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Description
Topics include: Overview; Names; Signs and symbols, signification, ideas or concepts, and what in the world is referred to; From lexicography to lexical semantics; Semantics within syntactic structures: the work of Jerrold J. Katz; Alternatives to Katzian semantics; The importance of truth conditions; The development of formal semantics; Anaphora; Contextual considerations and the rise of pragmatics; A summary history of semantics and pragmatics