Semantics: A Coursebook, Second Edition -

– Introduces logical notation and connectives to help students understand how complex meanings are structured.

– Covers speech acts (locutions, illocutions), conversational implicature, and figurative language like metaphor and metonymy. Key Educational Features Semantics: A Coursebook, SECOND EDITION

– Shifts focus to abstract meaning, discussing sense properties, stereotypes, and sense relations like synonymy and hyponymy. – Introduces logical notation and connectives to help

– Examines lexical semantics, including how dictionaries represent meaning, meaning postulates, and participant roles (thematic roles). discussing sense properties