This volume includes contributions from well-known philosophers of language and semanticists. It is a useful collection for students in philosophy of language, semantics and epistemology. It discusses new research in semantics, theory of truth, philosophy of language and theory of communication from a trans-disciplinary perspective and addresses issues such as sentence meaning, utterance meaning, speaker's intention and reference, linguistic context, circumstances and background theories.

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Introduction; G. Preyer, G. Peter, M. Ulkan. I: Speaker Meaning, Communication, And Intentions. 1. Communicative and Illocutionary Acts; M. Ulkan. 2. Language Acts and Action; L. Röska-Hardy. 3. Reflections on the Intentionality of Linguistic Behavior; J. Nuyts. 4. Descriptions, Indexicals, and Speaker Meaning; R. Elugardo. 5. Informatives and/or Directives? (A New Start in Speech Act Classification); G. Meggle, M. Ulkan. 6. Constructive Speech-Act Theory; D. Hartmann. II: Truth, Semantic Content, And Externalism. 7. The Truth about Moods; K. Ludwig. 8. Semantic Theory and Indirect Speech; H. Cappelen, E. Lepore. 9. All Facts Great and Small; R.N. Manning. 10. Knowledge, Content, and the Wellsprings of Objectivity; R. Wilburn. 11. Interpretation and Skill: On Passing Theory; D. Simpson. Contributors. Index.