Resources on
Semantics and Pragmatics
Semantics links
from Paul Hagstrom Semantics
Archive Resources on natural language semantics |
Additional
resources relaed to various topics in semantics 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 Semantics links
from Paul Hagstrom Semantics
Archive Resources on natural language semantics |
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… |