Semantics: A Linguistic Approach to the 21st Century

Author: He Yingyu
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: The series "Language Studies Towards the 21st Century" follows the thread of eight cutting-edge linguistic disciplines, based on representative research achievements in China, systematically summarizes the development of each discipline in the country, analyzes the important ideas and viewpoints of Chinese linguists, and provides an outlook on the development 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 Studies." Each volume includes a preface, an introduction (discipline overview, development in China, 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 relatively complete reference for showcasing cutting-edge research achievements and promoting theoretical research and teaching in linguistics. This book 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 papers cover both lexical semantics and syntactic semantics. The editors also objectively analyze each article in terms of research background, research value, and development direction to help readers deeply understand the content. At the end, a main bibliography of this discipline is provided. This book can not only promote the research of linguistic theory but also serve as a relatively complete reference for teaching, making it suitable for language researchers, graduate and undergraduate students in linguistics, and all readers interested in semantics.