Language in Context

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This volume by Stanley is certainly an important voice in the semantics/pragmatics debate, a sulutary reminder of the (important/pervasive) role of grammar and semantics in interpretation, and a source of most illuminating methodological considerations... this is a most important book, whose ideas will have many ramifications Alessandro Capone , Australian Journal of Linguistics Although the individual essays collected in Language in Context have already been widely read and discussed, it is useful to have them collected in a single volume. Reading the essays together, framed by an informative Introduction and Postscript, one can appreciate the richness, complexity and breadth of Jason Stanley's theoretical framework. These essays represent the state of the art in semantics and the philosophy of language and are mandatory reading for anyone working in these and related areas...There is no question that Language in Context is an outstanding achievement. Not since Stephen Neale's Descriptions has a book brought the apparatus of formal semantics and linguistic theory to bear on issues in the philosophy of language in such a constructive and illuminating way. Gary Ostertag, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews