January 2017 Academic & Specialist Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language

An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics Patrick Griffiths, edited by Chris Cummins

Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language

An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics
Patrick Griffiths, edited by Chris Cummins


An introduction to the linguistic study of meaning, this book outlines the meaning potential (semantics) of English and how language knowledge is put to use (pragmatics).