Semantics: Volume 1

Volume 1 provides a general and comprehensive introduction to semantics, synthesizing work on meaning and communication from many disciplines and setting semantics in the larger framework of semiotics. A General Introduction Synthesizing Work From Many Disciplines On Meaning And Communication. Little Technical Knowledge Needed, As All Relevant Terms And Concepts Carefully Explained. Introduction : Some Basic Terms And Concepts -- Communication And Information -- Language As A Semiotic System -- Semiotics -- Behaviourist Semantics -- Logical Semantics -- References, Sense And Denotation -- Structural Semantics I : Semantic Fields -- Structural Semantics Ii : Sense Relations. John Lyons. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: V. 1, P. [336]-356; V. 2, P. [850]-879.