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Publication details [#6392]

Lyons, John. 1977. Semantics. Cambridge University Press. xiii + xiv + 897 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
communicative competence | context | conversational implicature | culture | illocution | lexical theory | meaning theory | performative hypothesis | presupposition | reference | semiotics

Annotation

A general handbook of semantics including chapters on context, style and culture (dealing with communicative competence, conversational implicatures and presuppositions) and mood and illocutionary force (dealing with speech acts and the performative analysis of sentences).

Reviewed by

Dahl, Östen. 1978. Review of $Semantics.
Conte, Maria-Elisabeth. 1981. Textdeixis und Anapher.
Moravcsik, J.M.E. 1980. Semantics: The state of the art.