Full Description
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Language introduces readers to the main issues and theories in the philosophy of language as currently practised. Written by leading researchers and covering the central topics in the contemporary philosophical study of language, the twenty-seven chapters provide an overview of the state of the art, and a presentation of cutting-edge developments. Topics covered include: the nature of language; the nature and role of semantic and attitudinal content; the dynamics of communication and speech acts; meta-semantics and reference grounding; tense and modality; discourse dynamics and information structure; and the expressive, evaluative, subjective, and social aspects of language. Although some of the articles focus directly on technical issues following the recent approach of linguistically oriented philosophy of language, the majority of the contributions are primarily focused on foundational questions drawn from traditional philosophy of language. The volume offers a reconsideration of these foundational issues in a new light, while still bearing in mind the formal developments in recent literature, as well as a presentation of new foundational issues that have emerged as a result of these developments.
Contents
Preface
Part I: Languages and Language
1: Robert J. Stainton and Christopher Viger: Do Languages Really Exist?
2: Zoltán Gendler Szabó: Possible Human Languages
3: Guillermo Del Pinal: The Logicality of Language, Meaning-Driven Unacceptability, and Modulated Logic forms
Part II: Semantic Content and Propositional Attitudes
4: Samuel Cumming: Report and Content
5: David Sosa: A Plea for Innocence
6: Eleni Manolakaki: Contemporary Foundational Accounts of Propositions
7: Kathrin Glüer and Peter Pagin: Multiple Intensions Semantics
Part III: Communication and Speech Acts
8: Seth Yalcin: States of Conversation
9: Peter Hanks: The Distinction Between Content and Force
10: Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini: Do Not Diagonalize
Part IV: Meta-semantics and Foundations of Meaning Theory
11: Herman Cappelen and Max Deutsch: Reference without Deference
12: Paul M. Pietroski: One Word, Many Concepts: Endorsing Polysemous Meanings
13: Emma Borg: The Problem of Polysemy
14: Henry Jackman: Truth, Normativity, and Interpretational Theories of Meaning
15: Claudine Verheggen: Semantic Non-Reductionism
16: Wayne A. Davis: Foundations of Semantics
17: Jeffrey C. King: Quantifier Domain Restriction and the Problem of Incomplete Quantifiers
Part V: Tense and Modality
18: Fabrizio Cariani: Future Displacement and Modality
19: Paolo Santorio: The Semantics and Logic of Counterfactuals
20: J. L. Dowell: Deontic Modal Expressions
Part VI: Semantics and Linguistic Theory
21: John Collins: Indefinites: Scope and Context
22: Michael Glanzberg: Information Structure for Philosophers
Part VII: Expressive, Evaluative, Subjective, and Social Aspects of Language
23: Isidora Stojanovic: Evaluativity
24: Robin Jeshion: How Vocatives Illuminate Slurs
25: Christopher Hom and Robert May: The Metatheoretic Foundation for Racial Epithets
26: Malte Willer: Subjectivity
27: Elisabeth Camp and Ethan Nowak: Linguistic Variation, Agency, and Style
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