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An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics PDF Chris Cummins is a Chancellor s Fellow in the department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of EdinburghPatrick Griffiths was a professor of English at Beppu University Japan He taught courses on semantics the structure of English psycholinguistics and general linguistics at a number of universities including Beppu the University of the South Pacific and in the UK at York University and York St John He was author of the first edition of An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics EUP