The three-volume set discusses the foundations and methodology of semantics, introduces the major theoretical frameworks and theoretical issues, examines a wide variety of specific topics and phenomena of natural language meaning, and explores relations between semantics and other fields within and beyond linguistics. It updates the previous series Semantics--An International Handbook of Contemporary Research, which began publication in 1991. This first volume covers foundations, history, methods, lexical semantics, ambiguity and vagueness, cognitively oriented approaches, theories of sentence semantics, and theories of discourse semantics. It is not indexed. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)