Meaning: A Slim Guide to Semantics

by Paul Elbourne

Book Overview

Our outstanding ability to communicate is a distinguishing features of our species. To communicate is to convey meaning, but what is meaning? How do words combine to give us the meanings of sentences? And what makes a statement ambiguous or nonsensical? These questions and many others are addressed in Paul Elbourne's fascinating guide. He opens by asking what kinds of things the meanings of words and sentences could be: are they, for example, abstract...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199696624
• ISBN13: 9780199696628
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"