Naming and Indexicality

Gregory Bochner

doi:10.1017/9781316999073

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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1 - Descriptivism
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2 - The Referentialist Revolution
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3 - Three Puzzles Arising from the Rigidity Thesis
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4 - Varieties of Descriptivist Responses
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5 - Two-Dimensionalism
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Naming and Indexicality
pp i-i

Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics - Series page
pp ii-ii

Naming and Indexicality - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-6

1 - Descriptivism
pp 7-28

2 - The Referentialist Revolution
pp 29-64

3 - Three Puzzles Arising from the Rigidity Thesis
pp 65-88

4 - Varieties of Descriptivist Responses
pp 89-173

5 - Two-Dimensionalism
pp 174-253

Conclusion
pp 254-257

Glossary
pp 258-265

Works Cited
pp 266-281

Index
pp 282-286

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