an introduction Lyons, John creator text Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 1995 monographic xvi, 376 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 1. Metalinguistic preliminaries -- 2. Words as meaningful units -- 3. Defining the meaning of words -- 4. structural approach -- 5. Meaningful and meaningless sentences -- 6. Sentence-meaning and propositional content -- 7. formalization of sentence-meaning -- 8. Speech acts and illocutionary force -- 9. Text and discourse; context and co-text -- 10. subjectivity of utterance. John Lyons. Includes Index Semantics P325 .C78 0521433029 (hardback) 0521438772 9780521433020