Semantic Research: From Data to Analysis - Softcover

Bohnemeyer, Juergen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108441920 ISBN 13: 9781108441926

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

The first of its kind, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of semantics and pragmatics from an interactionist perspective, grounded entirely on empirical methods of social/behavioural science. Designed for advanced undergraduate students, beginning graduate students, and practicing researchers, it responds to the growing requirement that rather than relying on their own native speaker intuitions, students gather and analyze semantic data in a broad range of research contexts, from fieldwork to psycholinguistic and child language research. Practical in its approach, it provides the tools that the advanced student needs in order to 'do' this semantic research, in both field and laboratory contexts. This is facilitated by an innovative view of meaning that combines reference and mental representations as aspects of communicative interaction. It is accompanied by a glossary of terms and a range of exercises for students, along with model answers to the exercises for instructors.

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About the Author

Juergen Bohnemeyer is Professor of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo. He has conducted extensive research on the semantic typology of representations of space, time, events, and causality, and he founded the Semantic Typology Lab at the University at Buffalo.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108441920
• ISBN 13: 9781108441926
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 622