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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-100812277597
ISBN-139780812277593
eBay Product ID (ePID)1497391
Product Key Features
Number of Pages440 Pages
Publication NameOn Semantics
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1980
SubjectLinguistics / Semantics
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines
AuthorUriel Weinreich
SeriesAnniversary Collection
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN78-065114
Reviews"[A] well edited collection of Weinreich's articles."--Choice "The critical works soar, fly; they are graceful and forceful. . . . There is reason to read and reread Weinreich on semantics."--Canadian Journal of Linguistics, "The critical works soar, fly; they are graceful and forceful. . . . There is reason to read and reread Weinreich on semantics."-- Canadian Journal of Linguistics, The critical works soar, fly; they are graceful and forceful. . . . There is reason to read and reread Weinreich on semantics.
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal415
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
SynopsisUriel Weinreich was of the innovative and creative thinkers in the field of semantics in the twentieth century. This volume contains all of Weinreich's writings on semantics, including a number of papers that were not published in his lifetime. It includes the first paper on the universals of semantic theory, an analysis of the fundamental concepts of semantics and semiotics, and a critique of lexicography.