book on word semantics

[David B. Kronenfeld]

Anyone interested in a functional approach to word meaning, though one not
directly tied to any particular current linguistic school (i.e.
Functional--or Cognitive, Transformational,...), might want to look at my
recent book, PLASTIC GLASSES AND CHURCH FATHERS: SEMANTIC EXTENSION FROM THE
ETHNOSCIENCE TRADITION, (Oxford UP 1996 in the Oxford Studies in
Anthropological Linguistics; ISBN 0-19-509408-5).  The approach grows out of
anthropological work in semantics, attends seriously to the role of context
and of presuppositions, and embodies an approach to socially distributed
cognition and some utilization of schema theory from psychology.