"Now in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material gathered here is perfect for anyone who needs a detailed and accessible introduction to the important semantic theories. Designed for a wide audience, it will be of great value to linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language. The book covers theories of lexical semantics, cognitively oriented approaches to semantics, compositional theories of sentence semantics, and discourse semantics. This clear, elegant explanation of the key theories in semantics research is essential reading for anyone working in the area"--.

• Contents
• 1. Cognitive Semantics: An overview
• 2. Prototype theory
• 3. Frame Semantics
• 4. Conceptual Semantics
• 5. Two-level Semantics: Semantic Form and Conceptual Structure
• 6. Word meaning and world knowledge
• 7. Model-theoretic semantics
• 8. Event semantics
• 9. Situation Semantics and the ontology of natural language
• 10. Situation Semantics: From indexicality to metacommunicative interaction
• 11. Discourse Representation Theory
• 12. Dynamic semantics
• 13. Rhetorical relations
• Index