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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Linguistic Semantics: An introduction is a 1995 book by Sir John Lyons designed as an introductory text for ...
Stephen Ullmann (Hungarian: Ullmann István; 31 July 1914 – 10 January 1976) was a Hungarian linguist who spent most of his life in England and wrote about style and semantics in Romance and common languages.
Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics is a 1933 philosophy book written by Alfred Korzybski. [1] [2] [3] Published by the Institute of General Semantics, [4] it remains in print, the sixth edition released in 2023. [5]
Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (1947; enlarged edition 1956) is a book about semantics and modal logic by the philosopher Rudolf Carnap.The book, in which Carnap discusses the nature of linguistic expressions, was a continuation of his previous work in semantics in Introduction to Semantics (1942) and Formalization of Logic (1943).
Lyons' introductory texts are Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics, Chomsky, Semantics, and Linguistic Semantics. He was the creator of a constructed language called Bongo-Bongo, which he created as a teaching tool for his linguistics students. [2] Upon retirement in 2000 he moved to France. He died on 12 March 2020. [3]
People in Quandaries: the semantics of personal adjustment by Wendell Johnson, 1946—still in print from the Institute of General Semantics. Insightful book about the application of General Semantics to psychotherapy; was an acknowledged influence on Richard Bandler and John Grinder in their formulation of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Meaning and Context is a 1981 book by Sir John Lyons in which the author tries to outline the state of play ...
He wrote books on semantics (Carnap 1942, 1943, 1956), modal logic, and on the philosophical foundations of probability and inductive logic (Carnap 1950, 1952). After a stint at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1952–1954), he joined the UCLA Department of Philosophy in 1954, Hans Reichenbach having died the previous year.