Semantics: Studies in the Science of Meaning

A clear introduction to how words and sentences carry meaning, and how speakers mean more than they say. Covers word meaning, truth conditions, implicature and speech acts, with exercises built on data from many languages.

Paul R. Kroeger

The 1923 classic that introduced the famous semantic triangle linking words, thoughts and things. A study of how language shapes thought, with a supplement by the anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski.

C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards