{"product_id":"semantics-isbn-9781119709855","title":"Semantics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe latest edition of the bestselling introduction to the field of linguistic semantics, updated throughout and featuring a wholly new chapter on inferential pragmatics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSemantics, Fifth Edition, \u003c\/i\u003eis a comprehensive and well-balanced introduction to the study of the communication of meaning in language. Assuming no previous background in semantics and limited familiarity with formal linguistics, this student-friendly textbook describes the concepts, theory, and study of semantics in an accessible and clear style. Concise chapters describe the role of semantics within contemporary linguistics, cover key topics in the analysis of word and sentence meaning, and review major semantic theories such as componential theory, formal semantics, and cognitive semantics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe updated fifth edition incorporates recent theoretical developments and important research in linguistic semantics, featuring an entirely new chapter examining the overlap between inferential pragmatics and Relevance Theory, truth-conditional meaning, and other traditional areas of semantics. Revised and expanded sections discuss the continuing growth and consolidation of cognitive semantics, various contextual features of language, conceptualization and categorization, and construal and perspective. This edition includes new exercises with solutions, up-to-date references to relevant literature, and additional examples with data from a wide range of different languages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers basic concepts and methods as well as key theoretical models, current lines of research, and important writers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains general concepts in semantics before gradually moving to more advanced topics in semantic description and theoretical approaches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights the relation between cross-linguistic variation and language universals\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides students with the background necessary to understand more advanced and specialized primary semantics literature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a glossary of technical terms and numerous exercises arranged by level of difficulty  \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights the relationship between semantics and cross-linguistic variation, language universals, and pragmatics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith detailed examples from a wide range of contexts and a wealth of practical exercises, \u003ci\u003eSemantics, Fifth Edition,\u003c\/i\u003e remains the perfect textbook for undergraduate students of linguistics, English language, applied linguistics, modern languages, and computer sciences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures and Tables\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations and Symbols\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I Preliminaries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Semantics in Linguistics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Semantics and Semiotics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Three Challenges in Doing Semantics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Meeting the Challenges\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Semantics in a Model of Grammar\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5.2 Word meaning and sentence meaning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 Some Important Assumptions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6.1 Reference and sense\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6.2 Utterances, sentences, and propositions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6.3 Literal and non-literal meaning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6.4 Semantics and pragmatics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 Summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Meaning, Thought, and Reality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Reference\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2.1 Types of reference\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2.2 Names\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2.3 Nouns and noun phrases\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Reference as a Theory of Meaning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Mental Representations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4.2 Concepts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4.3 Necessary and sufficient conditions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4.4 Prototypes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4.5 Relations between concepts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4.6 Acquiring concepts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Words, Concepts, and Thinking\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5.1 Linguistic relativity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5.2 The language of thought hypothesis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5.3 Thought and reality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II Semantic Description\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Word Meaning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Words and Grammatical Categories\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Words and Lexical Items\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Problems with Pinning Down Word Meaning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Lexical Relations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.1 Homonymy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.2 Polysemy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.3 Synonymy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.4 Opposites (antonymy)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.5 Hyponymy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.6 Meronymy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.7 Member–collection\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5.8 Portion–mass\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Derivational Relations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6.1 Causative verbs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6.2 Agentive nouns\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 Lexical Typology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7.1 Polysemy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7.2 Color terms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7.3 Core vocabulary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7.4 Universal lexemes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8 Lexical Change\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8.2 Lexical shifts in meaning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8.3 System shifts in meaning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.9 Summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Sentence Relations and Truth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Logic and Truth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Necessary Truth, A Priori Truth, and Analyticity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Entailment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Presupposition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5.2 Two approaches to presupposition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5.3 Presupposition failure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5.4 Presupposition triggers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5.5 Presuppositions and context\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5.6 Pragmatic theories of presupposition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Sentence Semantics 1: Situations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Situation Types\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.1 States\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.2 Dynamic situation types\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.3 A system of situation types\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2.4 Tests for situation types\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Aspect\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4.1 Aspect and tense\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4.2 Comparing aspect across languages\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4.3 Aspect and situation type\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Modality and Mood\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5.1 Modality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5.2 Mood\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Evidentiality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7 Negation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7.2 Clausal negation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7.3 Constituent negation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7.4 Metalinguistic negation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7.5 Polarity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8 Summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Sentence Semantics 2: Participants\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Introduction: Classifying Participants\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Thematic Roles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Grammatical Relations and Thematic Roles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Verbs and Thematic Role Grids\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Problems with Thematic Roles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 The Motivation for Identifying Thematic Roles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7 Causation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8 Voice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8.1 Passive voice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8.2 Comparing passive constructions across languages\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8.3 Middle voice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.9 Classifiers and Noun Classes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.9.1 Classifiers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.9.2 Noun classes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.10 Summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Meaning and Context\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Deixis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2.1 Spatial deixis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2.2 Grammaticalization of context\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2.3 Extensions of spatial deixis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2.4 Person deixis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2.5 Social deixis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Reference and Context\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Knowledge as Context\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4.1 Discourse as context\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4.2 Background knowledge as context\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4.3 Mutual knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4.4 Giving background knowledge to computers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Information Structure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5.1 The information status of nominals\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5.2 Focus and topic\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5.3 Information structure and comprehension\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6 Inference\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7 Speech Act Semantics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7.2 Austin's Speech Act Theory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7.3 Evaluating performative utterances\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7.4 Explicit and implicit performatives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7.5 Statements as performatives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7.6 Three facets of a speech act\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7.7 Indirect speech acts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7.8 Understanding indirect speech acts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7.9 Speech acts: a summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.8 Summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III Theoretical Approaches\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Meaning Components\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Lexical Relations in CA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.1 Binary features\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2.2 Redundancy rules\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 Katz's Semantic Theory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.2 The Katzian dictionary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.3 Projection rules\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Grammatical Rules and Semantic Components\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4.1 The methodology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4.2 Thematic roles and linking rules\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Talmy's Typology of Motion Events\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 Jackendoff's Conceptual Structure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6.2 The semantic components\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6.3 Localist semantic fields\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6.4 Complex events and states\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6.5 THINGS: Semantic classes of nominals\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6.6 Cross-category generalizations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6.7 Processes of semantic combination\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7 Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7.1 Event structure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7.2 Polysemy and Qualia Structure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.8 Problems with Components of Meaning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.9 Summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Formal Semantics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Model-Theoretical Semantics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Translating English into a Logical Metalanguage\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3.2 Simple statements in predicate logic\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3.3 Quantifiers in predicate logic\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3.4 Some advantages of predicate logic translation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 The Semantics of the Logical Metalanguage\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4.2 The semantic interpretation of predicate logic symbols\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4.3 The domain\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4.4 The denotation assignment function\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 Checking the Truth-Value of Sentences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5.1 Evaluating a simple statement\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5.2 Evaluating a compound sentence with ∧ “and”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5.3 Evaluating sentences with the quantifiers ∀ and ∃\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.6 Word Meaning: Meaning Postulates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7 Natural Language Quantifiers and Higher-Order Logic\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7.1 Restricted quantifiers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7.2 Generalized quantifiers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7.3 The strong\/weak distinction and existential there sentences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7.4 Monotonicity and negative polarity items\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7.5 Section summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.8 Intensionality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.8.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.8.2 Modality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.8.3 Tense and aspect\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.9 Dynamic Approaches to Discourse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.9.1 Anaphora in and across sentences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.9.2 Donkey sentences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.9.3 DRT and discourse anaphora\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.10 Summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Cognitive Semantics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Categorization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2.1 The rejection of classical categories\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2.2 Embodiment and image schemas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2.3 Linguistic and encyclopedic knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Polysemy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3.1 Prepositions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3.2 Modal verbs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 Metaphor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.2 Conceptual Metaphor Theory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.3 Features of metaphor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.4 The influence of metaphor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 Metonymy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6 Mental Spaces\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6.1 Connections between spaces\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6.2 Referential opacity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6.3 Presupposition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6.4 Conceptual integration theory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6.5 Section summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.7 Langacker's Cognitive Grammar\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.7.1 Nouns, verbs, and clauses\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.7.2 Construal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.8 Construction Grammar\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.9 Summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Inferential Pragmatics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 Propositions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3 Beyond propositions: Grice's conversational implicature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3.2 Grice's maxims of conversational cooperation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4 Generalizing the Gricean Maxims\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4.1 Horn's Q and R principles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4.2 Levinson's Q, I and M principles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5 Contextualism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5.1 Sentence and proposition mismatches\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5.2 Gradable adjectives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5.3 Unexpressed temporal reference\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5.4 Quantifier domain restriction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5.5 Cardinal numbers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5.6 Section summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6 Relevance Theory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6.2 Explicatures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6.3 Higher level explicatures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6.4 Implicatures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6.5 Implicature and explicature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6.6 Implicated premises and implicated conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7 Lexical Pragmatics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7.2 Polysemy and context\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7.3 Microsenses and contextual modulation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7.4 Neo-Gricean lexical pragmatics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7.5 Lexical pragmatics in Relevance Theory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7.6 Section summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.8 Summary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSolutions to Exercises\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN I. SAEED\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Fellow of Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland, where he is a professor in linguistics. He has published studies on Cushitic linguistics, particularly Somali and related languages, as well as Irish Sign Language and linguistics. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eSomali\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIrish Sign Language: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach\u003c\/i\u003e (with Lorraine Leeson).   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSemantics, Fifth Edition\u003c\/i\u003e, is a comprehensive and well-balanced introduction to the study of the communication of meaning in language. Assuming no previous background in semantics and limited familiarity with formal linguistics, this student-friendly textbook describes the concepts, theory, and study of semantics in an accessible and clear style. Concise chapters describe the role of semantics within contemporary linguistics, cover key topics in the analysis of word and sentence meaning, and review major semantic theories such as componential theory, formal semantics, and cognitive semantics.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe updated fifth edition incorporates recent theoretical developments and important research in linguistic semantics, featuring an entirely new chapter examining the overlap between inferential pragmatics, including Relevance Theory, and traditional areas of semantics. Revised and expanded sections discuss the continuing growth and consolidation of cognitive semantics, various contextual features of language, conceptualization and categorization, and construal and perspective. This edition includes new exercises with solutions, up-to-date references to relevant literature, and additional examples with data from a wide range of different languages. 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