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According to the dominant position among philosophers of language today, we can legitimately ascribe determinate contents (such as truth-conditions) to natural language sentences, independently of what the speaker actually means. This view contrasts with that held by ordinary language philosophers fifty years ago: according to them, speech acts, not sentences, are the primary bearers of content. François Recanati argues for the relevance of this controversy to the current debate about semantics and pragmatics. Is 'what is said' (as opposed to merely implied) determined by linguistic conventions, or is it an aspect of 'speaker's meaning'? Do we need pragmatics to fix truth-conditions? What is 'literal meaning'? To what extent is semantic composition a creative process? How pervasive is context-sensitivity? Recanati provides an original and insightful defence of 'contextualism', and offers an informed survey of the spectrum of positions held by linguists and philosophers working at the semantics/pragmatics interface.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Pragmatics --- Semantics. --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Pragmatics. --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Sémantique --- Sémantique (Philosophie) --- Pragmatique --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Semantics (Philosophy). --- Sémantique --- Sémantique (Philosophie) --- Semantics --- Intension (Philosophy) --- Logical semantics --- Semantics (Logic) --- Semeiotics --- Significs --- Syntactics --- Unified science --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Logical positivism --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Semiotics --- Signs and symbols --- Symbolism --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Definition (Philosophy) --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Philosophy --- Sémantique (philosophie) --- Arts and Humanities

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Immunity to error through misidentification is recognised as an important feature of certain kinds of first-person judgments, as well as arguably being a feature of other indexical or demonstrative judgments. In this collection of newly commissioned essays, the contributors present a variety of approaches to it, engaging with historical and empirical aspects of the subject as well as contemporary philosophical work. It is the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to the topic and will be essential reading for anyone interested in philosophical work on the self, first-person thought or indexical thought more generally.

Error --- Identification --- Representation (Philosophy) --- Self (Philosophy) --- Representationalism (Philosophy) --- Representationism (Philosophy) --- Forensic identification --- Error. --- Identification. --- Culture --- Philosophy --- Belief and doubt --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Relativity --- Truth --- Truthfulness and falsehood --- Philosophical anthropology --- Arts and Humanities

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This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which has loomed large in recent philosophical discussions. In a substantial introduction, the editors survey the field and map out the relevant issues and positions.

Context (Linguistics). --- Semantics. --- Context (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Situation (Linguistics) --- Context --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Linguistics --- Discourse Analysis. --- Interpersonal Communication. --- Pragmatics.