Semantics vs. pragmatics

"Over the past thirty years, semantic theories for natural languages have become increasingly sophisticated, and have been invoked to deal with an ever increasing range of phenomena. This simultaneous expansion of depth and breadth has led to a renewed interest among philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists in the proper limits of this enterprise." "Semantics versus Pragmatics offers a stimulating series of original essays on this issue by some of the world's leading specialists, and includes an introduction which outlines the orthodox conception of the distinction (going back to Paul Grice's seminal work) and some of the reasons it has recently come under severe criticism. The volume's ten chapters cut through the terminological confusion which inevitably accompanies debates about disciplinary boundaries and vividly illustrate where the real fault-lines lie. Together, they reveal the conceptual subtlety and empirical richness of this vital issue, considerably advancing our understanding of it."--Jacket.

Context ex machina / Kent Bach -- Radical and moderate pragmatics : does meaning determine truth conditions? / Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore -- Focus : a case study on the semantics-pragmatics boundary / Michael Glanzberg -- Semantics, pragmatics, and the role of semantic content / Jeffrey C. King and Jason Stanley -- Pragmatism and binding / Stephen Neale -- Deixis and anaphora / François Recanati -- Two conceptions of semantics / Nathan Salmon -- Presupposition and relevance / Mandy Simons -- Naming and asserting / Scott Soames -- In defense of non-sentential assertion / Robert J. Stainton.