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The Routledge Handbook of Semantics provides a broad and state-of-the-art survey of this field at both word and sentence level. It presents a synoptic view of the most important current areas of investigation, methodologies, and debates in the study of meaning in language, as well as indicating possible future directions in the field. The handbook covers the key issues within areas including approaches; meaning and context; lexical semantics; development, change and variation; and meaning and conceptualisation. The Routledge Handbook of Semantics is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.

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