Author : Dwi Noverini Djenar
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Book Synopsis Semantic, Pragmatic and Discourse Perspectives of Preposition Use by : Dwi Noverini Djenar
Download or read book Semantic, Pragmatic and Discourse Perspectives of Preposition Use written by Dwi Noverini Djenar and published by Pacific Linguistics. This book was released on 2007 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth study of three locative prepositions which are often interchangeable in Indonesian, namely, d, pada and dalam - roughly corresponding to the English 'on, in, at'. Discussing a range of quite subtle meanings and uses of these prepositions in different types of discourse (or genre), it provides a complete descriptive account of prepositional meanings that reflects more closely the range of actual uses by speakers in spoken and written discourses. It addresses important semantic and pragmatic issues including polysemy, sense distinction, conceptual and non-conceptual aspects of preposition use, borrowing and semantic change, context and inferences. The issue of preposition alternation, which has received little attention in previous studies, is discussed in terms of the interplay between overlaps in the semantic range and pragmatic as well as discourse-related factors. This book will be an important book for students and researchers of Indonesian in particular, and those who are interested in semantics and pragmatics in general.