Readership: Advanced students and scholars working in the philosophy of language and related fields; linguists and cognitive scientists interested in meaning and communication
Jason Stanley, Rutgers University, New Jersey
"Although the individual essays collected in Language in Context have already been widely read and discussed, it is useful to have them collected in a single volume. Reading the essays together, framed by an informative Introduction and Postscript, one can appreciate the richness, complexity and breadth of Jason Stanley's theoretical framework. These essays represent the state of the art in semantics and the philosophy of language and are mandatory reading for anyone working in these and related areas...There is no question that Language in Context is an outstanding achievement. Not since Stephen Neale's Descriptions has a book brought the apparatus of formal semantics and linguistic theory to bear on issues in the philosophy of language in such a constructive and illuminating way." - Gary Ostertag, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Introduction 1: Context and Logical Form 2: with Zoltán Gendler Szabó: On Quantifer Domain Restriction 3: Nominal Restriction 4: with Jeffrey C. King: Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Role of Semantic Content 5: Making it Articulated 6: Semantics in Context 7: Review of François Recanati's Literal Meaning Postscript Index
