SEMANTICS : AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BASIC CONCEPTS

DESCRIPTION

Students of semantics in Indonesia find it hard to read and understand books on semantics which are written by famous experts in semantics, like Geoffrey Leech, F.R. Palmer, Ruth Kempson, or Charles W. Kreidler. As a result, they can only obtain a vague understanding of the materials of semantics. This fact inspires me to compile this thin book on semantics. This book discusses The Scope of Semantics, Approaches to the Study of Semantics, Word Meaning, Sentence Meaning, and Utterance Meaning. I do really hope that this book can inspire them to study language and semantics, especially the conceptual meaning