Offers original research by leading authorities in the fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language
Demonstrates the interconnectivity between philosophy of language and pragmatics, and shows how advances in the one field will trigger advances in the other
Covers theoretical and applied approaches to topics in the study of language

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Part I Theoretical approaches to philosophy of language.- Nathan Salmon, Cognition and recognition.- Jay Atlas, Aboutness and quantifying into intensional contexts.- Michael Devitt, Subsententials: Pragmatics or semantics?.- Graham Forbes, An investigation of a Gricean account of free-choice 'or'.- Denis Delfitto, Negation as a window on the non-sequential nature of language interpretation and processing.- Alessandro Capone, Embedding explicatures in implicit indirect reports (simple sentences and substitution failure cases).- Alberto Voltolini, How demonstratives' complex pictorial reference grounds contextualism.- Part II Pragmatics in discourse.- Alessandra Giorgi, Discourse, sentence grammar and the left periphery of the clause.- Keith Allan, Gettings a grip of context as a determinant of meaning.- Gunter, Senft, Theory meets Practice H. Paul Grice's Maxims of Quality and Manner and the Trobriand Islanders' language use.- Marco Carapezza Valentina Cuccio, Abductive inferences in pragmatic processes.- Richard Warner, Coordinating Meaning: Common Knowledge and Coordination in Speaker Meaning.- Brian, Butler, Dworkin's Semantic Sting and Behavioral Pragmatics.- Neale Norrick, Stories and the transmission of knowledge: Narrative, evidence, credibility and epistemic vigilance.