语义学引论（英文）

　　Linguistic semantics： An Introducition is the successor to Sir John Lyonss textbook Language， Meaning and conteext（1981）.While preserving the general structure of the earlier book. the author has substantially expanded its scope to introduce several topics that were not previously discussed， and to take account of new developments in linguistic semantics over the past decade. The resulting work is an invaluable guide to the subject. offering clarifications of its specialized terms and explaining its relationship to formal and philosophical semantics and to contemporary pragmatics. with its clear and accessible style it will appeal to a wide student readership.

　　Sir John Lyons is Master of trinity Hall in the University of cambridge. He is a fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Member of the Linguistic society of America. His many publications include structural semantics （1964）.Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics （1968）.Chomsky （1970）， Semantics （2 vols.， 1977）. Natural Language and Universal Grammar （wov.1 of his collected essays， 1991），and Linguistic semantics： An Introduction（1995）.

Preface by Halliday
Preface
List of symbols and typographical conventions
Part 1 Setting the scene
1 Metalinguistic pteliminaries
1.0 Introduction
1.1 The meaning of 'meaning'
1.2 The metalanguage of semantics
1.3 Linguistic and non-linguistic semantics
1.4 Language,speech and utterance langue and 'parole';'competence'and 'performance'
1.5 Words :forms and meanings
1.6 Sentences and utterances;text,conversation and siscourse
1.7 Theories of meaning and kinds of meaning
Part 2 Lexical Meaning
2 Words as meanignfufl nuits
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Forms and expressions
2.2 Homonymy and polysemy;lexical and grammatical ambiguity
2.3 Synonymy
2.4 Full and empty word-forms
2.5 Lexical mening and grammatical meaning
3 Defining the meaning of words
4 The structural approach
Part 3 Sentence -meanign
Part 4 Utterance -meaning
Suggestions for further reading
Bibliograpgy
Index
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