The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference

This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about. The volume’s forty-one original chapters, written by many of today’s leading philosophers of language, are organized into ten parts:

1. Early Descriptive Theories
2. Causal Theories of Reference
3. Causal Theories and Cognitive Significance
4. Alternate Theories
5. Two-Dimensional Semantics
6. N...