02487cam a22003858i 4500 22256222 20250722103518.0 210928s2021 enk b 001 0 eng 2021024654 9781108428453 9781316999073 22256222 DLC eng rda DLC pcc P325.5.R44 BOC 2021 401/.456 23/eng/20210930 LAN016000 bisacsh Bochner, Gregory, 1982- author. Naming and indexicality / Gregory Bochner. London, United Kingdom: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2024. 2112 X, 296 pages: 22 cm. Key topics in semantics and pragmatics Includes bibliographical references and index. "How do words stand for things? Taking ideas from philosophical semantics and pragmatics, this book offers a unique, detailed, and critical survey of central debates concerning linguistic reference in the twentieth century. It then uses the survey to identify and argue for a novel version of current 'two-dimensional' theories of meaning, which generalise the context-dependency of indexical expressions. The survey highlights the history of tensions between semantic and epistemic constraints on plausible theories of word meaning, from analytic philosophy and modern truth-conditional semantics, to the Referentialist and Externalist revolutions in theories of meaning, to the more recent reconciliatory ambition of two-dimensionalists. It clearly introduces technical semantical notions, theses, and arguments, with easy-to-follow, step-by-step guides. Wide-ranging in its scope, yet offering an accessible route into literature that can seem complex and technical, this will be essential reading for advanced students, and academic researchers in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language"-- Names Philosophy. Reference (Philosophy) Semantics (Philosophy) Pragmatics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics bisacsh Online version: Bochner, Gregory, 1982- Naming and indexicality Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781316999073 (DLC) 2021024655 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 24967 24967 0 0 lcc 0 0 MZUNILIB MZUNILIB 2025-07-22 0 P 325.5.R44 BOC 2021 mZUlm-034301 2025-07-22 10:36:26 034301 2025-07-22 BK