Resources on Semantics and Pragmatics

 

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Basic resources in semantics

Additional resources in semantics

Resources on pragmatics

Fun semantics and pragmatics links

 

Basic resources in semantics

Linguistics & Semantics: Can Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously? by Robert Beard

Semantics links from Paul Hagstrom

Semantics Archive Resources on natural language semantics

 

Additional resources relaed to various topics in semantics

Lexical semantics bibliography

Annotated bibliography on the semantics of tense and aspect and semantics links

e-prints of articles on articles on semantics from CogPrints

The syntax and semantics of questions – resources from a seminar taught by Paul Hagstrom at John Hopkins University (now at Boston University)

The Pierce Edition Project to collect the words of philosopher Charles Pierce

Knowledge Representation – from John Sowa

Noun classification in Swahili – cultural semantics

Conceptual metaphor homepage – research on metaphor from UC Berkeley

Research on metaphor and metonymy – colleciton of abstracts

Metaphor in scientific thinking – resources on the study of metaphor

Basic resources in semantics

Linguistics & Semantics: Can Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously? by Robert Beard

Semantics links from Paul Hagstrom

Semantics Archive Resources on natural language semantics

 

Some resources on pragmatics

Introduction to Relevance Theory by Deidre Wilson and Dan Sperber (G. Ward and L. Horn (eds) Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford : Blackwell)

e-prints of articles on articles on pragmatics from CogPrints

International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

A history of speech act theory

A course in literary stylistics that includes basic information on Speech Act Theory and Grice’s Conversational Maxims

 

Fun Semantics/Pragmatics links

The Visual Thesaurus from Plumb Design – a very cool site that animates the semantic relationships between words

((Cr((e(a.)t)(i'v)(e) (I'd)e(a)s “Linguistics, Neology and Neological Ideas” from a site about creativity – Here’s a quote – “Inside creativity the letter A is in parentheses to indicate the homonym, Ah!. Then the pair of parentheses including the letters EA, with the period to be after the A, should bring to mind the abbreviation for the word ‘each’. Then comes the parenthetical enclosure around ‘i'v’; this clearly indicates the contraction for "I have". Last, is the E, it is meant to mean the letter E as it exists in the well known formula ‘E=MC2’ And so here it stands for the word ‘energy’. And you thought predicate calculus was confusing…