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.
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