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Analyzing Meaning: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics: by Paul R. Kroeger, Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018, xiv+482 pp.

In I Analyzing Meaning i Paul Kroeger creates an interconnection between semantics and pragmatics as two evolving, capacious areas of linguistic inquiry. The chapter ends with useful topics related to expressive meaning and the properties differentiating expressive meaning from descriptive meaning,...

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Published in:Australian Journal of Linguistics Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 270 - 273
Main Authors: Yousefi, Moslem, Mardian, Fatemeh
Format: Book Review
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2020
Subjects:
Linguistics
Pragmatics
Semantics
Applied linguistics
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Berlin (Germany)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:In I Analyzing Meaning i Paul Kroeger creates an interconnection between semantics and pragmatics as two evolving, capacious areas of linguistic inquiry. The chapter ends with useful topics related to expressive meaning and the properties differentiating expressive meaning from descriptive meaning, including I independence, nondisplaceability, immunity, scalability and repeatability i and I descriptive ineffability i .