Linguisticsemantics：AnIntroducitionisthesuccessortoSirJohnLyonsstextbookLanguage，Meaningandconteext(1981).Whilepreservingthegeneralstructureoftheearlierbook.theauthorhassubstantiallyexpandeditsscopetointroduceseveraltopicsthatwerenotpreviouslydiscussed，andtotakeaccountofnewdevelopmentsinlinguisticsemanticsoverthepastdecade.Theresultingworkisaninvaluableguidetothesubject.offeringclarificationsofitsspecializedtermsandexplainingitsrelationshiptoformalandphilosophicalsemanticsandtocontemporarypragmatics.withitsclearandaccessiblestyleitwillappealtoawidestudentreadership.