Semantics (Linguistics Towards the 21st Century)

Author: He Yingyu
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Features: The series "Linguistics Towards the 21st Century" is organized around eight cutting-edge disciplines in linguistics, based on representative research achievements in China, systematically summarizing the development of each discipline in the country, analyzing the important ideas and viewpoints of Chinese linguists, and providing an outlook on the future of linguistics in the 21st century. The series consists of eight volumes: "General Linguistics," "Semiotic Linguistics," "Applied Linguistics," "Semantics," "Pragmatics," "Sociolinguistics," "Computational Linguistics," and "Linguistic Geography." Each volume includes a preface, an introduction (discipline overview, development in China, and future trends in the 21st century), representative research achievements of Chinese scholars in the 20th century, objective analysis and evaluation of each article, and a main bibliography. This series provides a comprehensive reference for showcasing cutting-edge research results, promoting theoretical research and teaching in linguistics. This volume is "Semantics," which systematically introduces the history and current state of semantic research both domestically and internationally. It selects 31 papers published in domestic academic journals in recent years and compiles them to showcase the basic directions and major achievements of semantic research in China's foreign language field. The selected articles cover two major aspects: lexical semantics and syntactic semantics. The editors also provide objective analyses and evaluations of each article regarding the research background, research value, and development direction, to help readers gain a deeper understanding of the content. A main bibliography for this discipline is also provided at the end. This book not only promotes the research of linguistic theory but also serves as a comprehensive reference for teaching, making it suitable for linguistics researchers, graduate and undergraduate students in linguistics, and all readers interested in semantics.