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Chapter 1 Semantics in linguistics
1£®1 Definition of semantics
1£®2 Semantics and semiotics
1£®3 Semantics and pragmatics
1£®4 Some important assumptions
1£®4£®1 Reference and sense
1£®4£®2 Utterances£¬ sentences and propositions
1£®4£®3 Sentence meaning and utterance meaning
1£®4£®4 Literal and non-literal meaning
1£®4£®5 Refer and denote
1£®4£®6 Referents and extensions
1£®4£®7 Conceptual meaning and associative meaning
1£®5 Meanings of meaning
1£®5£®1 The referential theory£º meaning as naming
1£®5£®2 Conceptualism£º meaning as concept
1£®5£®3 Contextualism£º meaning as context
1£®5£®4 Behaviorism£º meaning as behavior
1£®6 Summary

Chapter 2 Language£¬ thought and reality£®
2£®1 Language and thought
2£®1£®1 Language determines thought
2£®1£®2 Thought determines language
2£®1£®3 The language of thought hypothesis
2£®2 Thought and reality
2£®3 Language and reality
2£®4 Summary

Chapter 3 Word meaning
3£®1 What is a word£¿
3£®2 Lexical ambiguity and vagueness
3£®3 Sense relations
3£®3£®1 Synonymy
3£®3£®2 Antonymy
3£®3£®3 Hyponymy
3£®3£®4 Homonymy
3£®3£®5 Polysemy
3£®3£®6 Meronymy
3£®3£®7 Member¡ª¡ªcollection
3£®3£®8 Portion¡ª¡ªmass
3£®4 Summary

Chapter 4 Sentence relations and truth
4£®1 Logic and truth
4£®2 Necessary truth£¬ a priori truth and analyticity
4£®3 Entailment
4£®4 Presupposition
4£®4£®1 Two approaches to presupposition
4£®4£®2 Presupposition failure
4£®4£®3 Presupposition triggers
4£®4£®4 Presuppositions and context
4£®5 Summary

Chapter 5 Sentence semantics 1£º situations
5£®1 situation types
5£®2 Verbs and situation types
5£®2£®1 Stative verbs
5£®2£®2 Dynamic verbs
5£®3 A system of situation types
5£®4 Modalityand evidentiality
5£®4£®1 Modality
5£®4£®2 Interpretations of some modal verbs
5£®4£®3 Evidentiality
5£®5 Summary

Chapter 6 Sentence semantics 2£º thematic roles
6£®1 Thematic roles
6£®2 Identification of thematic roles
6£®3 Grammatical relations and thematic roles
6£®4 Problems with thematic roles
6£®5 The motivation for identifying thematic roles
6£®6 Voice
6£®7 Summary

Chapter 7 Context and inference£º a pragmatic study of meaning 1
7£®1 Deixis
7£®1£®1 Place deixis
7£®1£®2 Person deixis
7£®1£®3 Time deixis
7£®1£®4 Discourse deixis
7£®1£®5 Social deixis
7£®1£®6 Grammaticalization of contextual information
7£®1£®7 Metaphorical relationship between space£¬ time and discourse deixis
7£®2 Reference and context
7£®3 Knowledge as context
7£®3£®1 Situation as context
7£®3£®2 Discourse as context
7£®3£®3 Background knowledge as context
7£®3£®4 Giving background knowledge to computers
7£®4 Information structure
7£®5 Inference
7£®6 Conversational implicature
7£®6£®1 Grice's Cooperative Principle
7£®6£®2 Post-Gricean developments
7£®7 Summary

Chapter 8 Speech act theory£º a pragmatic study of meaning 2
8£®1 Austin's Speech Act Theory
8£®1£®1 The performative-constative dichotomy
8£®1£®2 Felicity conditions
8£®1£®3 Collapse of the dichotomy
8£®1£®4 A theory of illocutionary act
8£®2 Searle's theory of speech acts
8£®3 Indirect speech acts
8£®4 Indirect speech acts and politeness
8£®5 Summary

Chapter 9 Decomposition of meaning
9£®1 Componential analysis
9£®2 Katz's semantic theory
9£®2£®1 The Katzian dictionary
9£®2£®2 Projection rules
9£®3 Components and conflation patterns
9£®4 Conflation patterns of motion verbs in English and Chinese£®£®-
9£®4£®1 Conflation patterns of manner verbs in English and Chinese
9£®4£®2 Conflation patterns of path verbs in English and Chinese ¡ª¡ª£®
9£®5 Predication analysis
9£®6 Summary

Chapter 10 Cognitive semantics
10£®1 Metaphor and metonymy
10£®1£®1 Metaphor
10£®1£®2 Metonymy
10£®1£®3 Metaphor-metonymy interaction
10£®2 image schema
10£®2£®1 Containment schema
10£®2£®2 Path schema
10£®2£®3 Force schema
10£®3 Polysemy
10£®3£®1 Prepositions
10£®3£®2 Modal verbs
10£®4 Categorization and idealized cognitive models
10£®4£®1 Categorization
10£®4£®2 Idealized cognitive models
10£®5 Iconicity
10£®5£®1 Iconicity of order
10£®5£®2 Iconicity of distance
10£®5£®3 Iconicity of quantity
10£®5£®4 Philosophical interpretation of iconicity
10£®5£®5 Iconicity and other competing principles
10£®6 Mental spaces
10£®6£®1 Connections between spaces
10£®6£®2 Referential opacity
10£®6£®3 Presupposition
10£®7 Conceptual blending
10£®7£®1 The origins of Blending Theory
10£®7£®2 Towards a theory of conceptual integration
10£®7£®3 The nature of blending
10£®7£®4 Contrasting Blending Theory with Conceptual Metaphor Theory
10£®8 Grammaticalization
10£®9 Summary
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