Publications

Publication details [#11926]

Zimmermann, Thomas Ede. 1997. Review Article: Knowledge of Meaning. An Introduction to Semantic Theory. Journal of Pragmatics 28 (2) : 261–270. 10 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

semantics2

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Review of

Larson, Richard and Gabriel M. A. Segal. 1995. Knowledge of meaning: an introduction to semantic theory. MIT Press.

Annotation

Although not recommended, Larson & Segal's book is praised for its overall organization, content and exercises. Negative points of criticism involve the idiosyncratic framework and its lack of technical details.