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TheCambridgeHandbookofthePhilosophyofLanguage Thephilosophyoflanguageiscentraltotheconcernsofthoseworkingacross semantics,pragmatics,andcognition,aswellasthephilosophyofmindand ideas.Bringingtogetheraninternationalteamofleadingscholars,thishand- bookprovidesacomprehensiveguidetocontemporaryinvestigationsintothe relationship between language, philosophy, and linguistics. Chapters are grouped into thematic areas and cover a wide range of topics, from key philosophicalnotions,suchasmeaning,truth,reference,names,andproposi- tions, to characteristics of the most recent research in the field, including logicalityoflanguage,vaguenessinnaturallanguage,valuejudgments,slurs, deception, proximization in discourse, argumentation theory, and linguistic relativity.Italsoincludeschaptersthatexploreselectedlinguistictheoriesand their philosophical implications, providing a much-needed interdisciplinary perspective.Showcasingthecuttingedgeinresearchinthefield,thisbookis essentialreadingforphilosophersinterestedinlanguageandlinguistics,and linguistsinterestedinphilosophicalanalyses. PIOTRSTALMASZCZYKisProfessorandChairofEnglishLanguageandLinguistics attheUniversityofLodz(Poland).Hisresearchisconcernedwithphilosophyof language and linguistics. Recent publications include the edited volume PhilosophicalInsightsintoPragmatics(DeGruyter2019),andtwoeditedvolumes on predication theory (both with Peter Lang, 2017). In 2017 he was elected presidentofthePolishLinguisticsAssociation. cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics Genuinelybroadinscope,eachhandbookinthisseriesprovidesacomplete state-of-the-fieldoverviewofamajorsub-disciplinewithinlanguagestudyand research.Groupedintobroadthematicareas,thechaptersineachvolume encompassthemostimportantissuesandtopicswithineachsubject,offering acoherentpictureofthelatesttheoriesandfindings.Together,thevolumes willbuildintoanintegratedoverviewofthedisciplineinitsentirety. 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Contents ListofFigures pagex ListofTables xi ListofContributors xii Preface xv 1 PhilosophyofLanguage:Definitions,Disciplines,and Approaches PiotrStalmaszczyk 1 PartI ThePast,Present,andFutureofPhilosophyofLanguage 49 2 TheHistoryofthePhilosophyofLanguagebefore Frege MichaelLosonsky 51 3 HowthePhilosophyofLanguageGrewOutofAnalytic Philosophy DanielW.Harris 71 4 PhilosophyofLanguagefortheTwenty-First Century ScottSoames 89 PartII SomeFoundationalIssues 105 5 PhilosophyofLanguage,Ontology,andLogic ChrisFox 107 6 Frege’sLegacyinthePhilosophyofLanguageandMind Eros Corazza 124 7 MetasemanticsandMetapragmatics:PhilosophicalFoundations ofMeaning KasiaM.Jaszczolt 139 8 InternalistPerspectivesonLanguage JohnCollins 157 9 SemanticContentandUtteranceContext:ASpectrumof Approaches EmmaBorgandSarahA.Fisher 174 10 SemanticMinimalismandContextualisminLightofthe LogicalityofLanguage GuillermoDelPinal 194 viii Contents PartIII FromTruthtoVagueness 215 11 TruthandTheoriesofTruth PanuRaatikainen 217 12 ReferenceandTheoriesofReference GenovevaMart´ı 233 13 NamesinPhilosophy Andre´ Bazzoni 249 14 IndexicalsandContextualInvolvement KatarzynaKijania- Placek 266 15 NaturalKindTerms LuisFernańdezMoreno 283 16 VaguenessinNaturalLanguage JoannaOdrowa˛z˙-Sypniewska 300 PartIV IssuesinSemanticsandPragmatics 317 17 Entailment,Presupposition,Implicature RobertaColonna Dahlman 319 18 SpeechActs,Actions,andEvents BrianBall 335 19 Propositions,Predication,andAssertion PeterHanks 349 20 EventsinSemantics AlexanderWilliams 366 21 SemanticsandGenerativeGrammar JarosławJakielaszek 387 22 Metasemantics:ANormativePerspective(andtheCaseof Mood) ManuelGarcıá-Carpintero 401 23 TheNormativityofMeaningandContent AlexanderMiller 419 24 TheSemanticsandPragmaticsofValueJudgments Andre´s SoriaRuiz,BiancaCepollaro,andIsidoraStojanovic 434 25 Slurs:SemanticandPragmaticTheories ofMeaning LeopoldHess 450 PartV PhilosophicalImplicationsandLinguisticTheories 467 26 PhilosophicalImplicationsofGenerative Grammar PeterLudlow 469 27 ConceptualSemanticsandItsImplicationsfor PhilosophyofLanguage RayJackendoff 491 28 RelevanceTheoryandthePhilosophy ofLanguage RobynCarston 515 29 MentalFiles FrançoisRecanati 535 30 ContemporaryDiscourseStudiesandPhilosophyof Language PiotrCap 548 PartVI SomeExtensions 569 31 ThePhilosophyofArgument JeanH.M.Wagemans 571 32 NegationandDenial StephenMumford 590 33 Deception:LyingandBeyond MartaDynel 606 34 TypesandDefinitionsofIrony EleniKapogianni 622