The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language

Cover
Summary
Title Page
Contents
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Contributors
Preface
1 Philosophy of Language: Definitions, Disciplines, and Approaches
Part I: The Past, Present, and Future of Philosophy of Language
	2 The History of the Philosophy of Language before Frege
	3 How the Philosophy of Language Grew Out of Analytic Philosophy
	4 Philosophy of Language for the Twenty-First Century
Part II: Some Foundational Issues
	5 Philosophy of Language, Ontology, and Logic
	6 Frege’s Legacy in the Philosophy of Language and Mind
	7 Metasemantics and Metapragmatics: Philosophical Foundations of Meaning
	8 Internalist Perspectives on Language
	9 Semantic Content and Utterance Context: A Spectrum of Approaches
	10 Semantic Minimalism and Contextualism in Light of the Logicality of Language
Part III: From Truth to Vagueness
	11 Truth and Theories of Truth
	12 Reference and Theories of Reference
	13 Names in Philosophy
	14 Indexicals and Contextual Involvement
	15 Natural Kind Terms
	16 Vagueness in Natural Language
Part IV: Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics
	17 Entailment, Presupposition, Implicature
	18 Speech Acts, Actions, and Events
	19 Propositions, Predication, and Assertion
	20 Events in Semantics
	21 Semantics and Generative Grammar
	22 Metasemantics: A Normative Perspective (and the Case of Mood)
	23 The Normativity of Meaning and Content
	24 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Value Judgments
	25 Slurs: Semantic and Pragmatic Theories of Meaning
Part V: Philosophical Implications and Linguistic Theories
	26 Philosophical Implications of Generative Grammar
	27 Conceptual Semantics and Its Implications for Philosophy of Language
	28 Relevance Theory and the Philosophy of Language
	29 Mental Files
	30 Contemporary Discourse Studies and Philosophy of Language
Part VI: Some Extensions
	31 The Philosophy of Argument
	32 Negation and Denial
	33 Deception: Lying and Beyond
	34 Types and Definitions of Irony
	35 Philosophy of Language and Metaphor
	36 Analytic Philosophy of Literature
	37 The Many Facets of Linguistic Relativity
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Index