En otro tiempo se consideraba que el estudio del significado en la lengua escapaba del ámbito de un análisis rigurosamente científico. Recientemente, sin embargo, avances técnicos en la lingüística y
Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyonss important study Language, Meaning and Context (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 into account developments in linguistic semantics. The resulting work is an invaluable guide to the subject, offering clarifications of its specialised 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 one of the most important and internationally renowned contributors to the study of linguistics. His many publications include Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (1968) and Semantics (1977).
A riveting account of courageous resistance from the bestselling author of Balcony Over Jerusalem On 24 February 2022 residents of Kyiv Ukraine woke to the sound of explosions and gunfire as Russian forces attempted to seize Hostomel Airport It marked the beginning of the first land war in Europe since World War II Under the leadership of the charismatic Volodymyr Zelensky a militarized resistance and a civilian army of volunteers combined to defy Vladimir Putin By day visitors to Kyiv might mistake it for any other charming European city But when night falls sirens wail and citizens sleep in bathrooms and bunkers to escape the persistent dangers of incoming missiles This war is fought daily on both the front lines and the home front Resourceful civilians from old punk rockers and bikers to university professors and corporate brand managers provide every bit of help they can outwitting and outmanoeuvring the Russian army with drones cyber tech and sheer ingenuity As Ukraine s long term future captures the focus of global leaders in Russia Europe and the US veteran journalist and ABC Global Affairs Editor John Lyons takes readers into the heart of a nation under siege He interviews Ukrainians who stand tall in the face of an increasingly brutal co
El presente libro es una ampliación, realizada por su propio autor, del ya clásico Lenguaje, significado y contexto, también publicado por Paidós. Aunque mantiene su estructura general, Lyons ha ampliado sustancialmente el ambito de la materia tratada para introducir algunos asuntos no abordados en el trabajo anterior, sobre todo los avances de la semantica linguistica durante la decada de los ochenta. El trabajo resultante es una guia inapreciable, el mejor manual posible sobre el tema, pues facilita aclaraciones precisas sobre los terminos especializados y explica la relacion existente entre la semantica linguistica, la semantica formal o filosofica y la pragmatica contemporanea.