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SEMANTICS (2nd ed.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2005

Barbara Abbott
Barbara Abbott
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Michigan State University
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SEMANTICS (2nd ed.). John I. Saeed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. xx + 413. $68.95 cloth, $32.95 paper.

After a long dry spell in which there were few—if any—satisfactory introductory texts in semantics and pragmatics available, the first edition of Saeed's Semantics appeared in 1997. Since then, a number of other texts have appeared: de Swart's Introduction to natural language semantics (1998), Kearns' Semantics (2000), Allan's Natural language semantics (2001), among others. The primary advantage of the original Saeed text as well as this revised and updated version is its comprehensiveness. It includes descriptive lexical semantics, an introduction to formal semantics, the cognitive approaches of Lakoff and others, and more pragmatics than most of its competitors.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 465 - 466
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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