Author: John Lyons Publisher: Cambridge University Press Year: 1995 1. Executive Summary This report provides an overview of John Lyons’ seminal work, Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction . As one of the most distinguished linguists of the 20thth century, Lyons wrote this book as an accessible yet rigorous entry point into the field of semantics—the study of meaning. Unlike his earlier, more technical two-volume set Semantics (1977), this single-volume work distills complex theories for students and general readers. The text is renowned for establishing semantics as an autonomous branch of linguistics, independent of philosophy or psychology, while acknowledging their intersections. 2. Scope and Approach The "work" defined in this text is characterized by a structuralist and truth-conditional approach to language. Lyons argues that semantics should be studied systematically within the framework of language structure. Bye 2 2020 Hindi Nuefliks Original Unrated Hdri... ●