TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bochner,Gregory
TI  - Naming and indexicality
T2  - Key topics in semantics and pragmatics
SN  - 9781108428453
AV  - P325.5.R44 BOC  2021
U1  - 401/.456 23/eng/20210930
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London, United Kingdom
PB  -  CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
KW  - Names
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Reference (Philosophy)
KW  - Semantics (Philosophy)
KW  - Pragmatics
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -