Pursuing Meaning

by Emma Borg

Book Overview

Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics (roughly, features of the literal meaning of linguistic items) and pragmatics (features emerging from the context within which such items are being used), and assesses recent answers to the fundamental questions of how and where to draw the divide between the two. In particular, she offers a defence of what is commonly known as "minimal semantics." Minimal semantics, as the name suggests, wants to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199588376
• ISBN13: 9780199588374
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"