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目次

Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Metalinguistic preliminaries; Part II.Lexical Meaning: 2. Words as meaningful units; 3. Defining the meaningof words; 4. The structural approach; Part III. Sentence-Meaning: 5.Meaningful and meaningless sentences; 6. Sentence-meaning andpropositional content; 7. The formalisation of sentence-meaning; PartIV. Utterance-Meaning: 8. Speech acts and illocutionary force; 9. Textand discourse; context and co-text; 10. The subjectivity of utterance;Bibliography; Index.