Readership: Scholars and students of the philosophy of language, and of linguistics.
Edited by Zoltan Gendler Szabo, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University
"Semantics Versus Pragmatics is a collection of ten papers by some of the most influential contemporary analytic philosophers of language, preceded by an informative and accessible introduction by the book's editor. The book is important because the papers it contains reflect a wide range of views concerning the lively debate that is currently taking place concerning how, and whether, the distinction between pragmatics and semantics is to be drawn. . . . [they] provide ample evidence that analytic philosophy of language is in the midst of a lively debate that has produced, and is likely to continue producing, important clarifications and insights." - Lenny Clapp, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Zoltan Gendler Szabo: Introduction 1: Kent Bach: Context ex Machina 2: Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore: Radical and Moderate Pragmatics: Does Meaning Determine Truth Conditions? 3: Jeffrey C. King and Jason Stanley: Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Role of Semantic Content 4: Nathan Salmon: Two Concepts of Semantics 5: Michael Glanzberg: Focus: A Case Study on the Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary 6: Stephen Neale: Pragmatism and Pronouns 7: F. Recanati: Deixis and Anaphora 8: Mandy Simons: Presupposition and Relevance 9: Scott Soames: Naming and Asserting 10: Robert J. Stainton: In Defence of Non-Sentential Assertion
