Semantics: A Coursebook, Second Edition -

– Shifts focus to abstract meaning, discussing sense properties, stereotypes, and sense relations like synonymy and hyponymy.

– Introduces the distinction between sentences, utterances, and propositions. Semantics: A Coursebook, SECOND EDITION

– Covers speech acts (locutions, illocutions), conversational implicature, and figurative language like metaphor and metonymy. Key Educational Features – Shifts focus to abstract meaning, discussing sense

– Focuses on how language refers to the world, exploring referring expressions, predicates, deixis, and definiteness. – Shifts focus to abstract meaning