Oxford University Press, Inc. New York, NY, USA. 2005. — 476 pages. Includes index. — ISBN 0-19-925151-7Leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics present brand-new papers on a major topic at the intersection of the two fields, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. Anyone engaged with this issue in either discipline will find much to reward their attention here.
Contributors: Kent Bach, Herman Cappelen, Michael Glanzberg, Jeffrey C. King, Ernie Lepore, Stephen Neale, F. Recanati, Nathan Salmon, Mandy Simons, Scott Soames, Robert J. Stainton, Jason Stanley, Zoltan Gendler Szabo.Context ex Machina
Radical and Moderate Pragmatics: Docs Meaning Determine Truth Conditions?
Focus: A Case Study on the Semantics — Pragmatics Boundary
Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Role of Semantic Content
Pragmatism and Binding
Deixis and Anaphora
Two Conceptions of Semantics
Presupposition and Relevance
Naming and Asserting
In Defense of Non-Sentential Assertion
