The Theory of Meaning by Russell Dale; Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Abstract
Acknowledgments
Contents

1 The Theory of Meaning: General Introduction

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Grice's "Meaning"

1.2.1 The Reduction of Expression-Meaning
1.2.2 Reduction?
1.2.3 Speaker-Meaning
1.2.4 Natural and Non-Natural Meaning

1.3 Gricean Theories of Meaning
1.4 Summary

2 The Theory of Meaning in the Twentieth Century

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Victoria Welby
2.3 Ferdinand de Saussure
2.4 Alan Henderson Gardiner
2.5 Causal Theories of Meaning
2.6 Grice
2.7 The Usual Conception Today of the History of "The Theory of Meaning"
2.8 Summary

3 The Theory of Meaning: Framework for the Present Discussion

3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Actual-Language Relation
3.3 Propositions
3.4 Ambiguity
3.5 Indexicality
3.6 Non-Indicatives
3.7 Sub-Sentential Expression Meaning
3.8 Non-Literal Meaning
3.9 The Language of Thought Hypothesis
3.10 Summary

4 Compositional Semantics and Meaning

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Compositional Meaning Theories and Compositional Truth Theories
4.3 Meaning and Naturalizing CSTs

4.3.1 Davidson and Peacocke and Intentional Relations to CTTs
4.3.2 Field, Fodor, and Naturalizing Truth
4.3.3 Chomsky and Intentional Relations to CMTs

4.4 What Reasons There are for Supposing Natural Languages Have CSTs
4.5 Summary

5 Conventions and Meaning

5.1 Introduction
5.2 Truthfulness-By-Silence

5.2.1 Truthfulness-By-Silence and the Theory [L']
5.2.2 Lewis on Attitude Ascriptions In Sensu Diviso
5.2.3 Truthfulness-By-Silence and the Theory [L]
5.2.4 Truthfulness in L* Given Truthfulness in L and Truthfulness and Trust in L* Given Truthfulness and Trust in L

5.3 Truthfulness-by-Silence Versus CMTs
5.4 Conventions and Interest in Communication
5.5 Loar's Actual-Language Relation
5.6 Summary

6 Translational Theories of Meaning

6.1 Introduction
6.2 Schiffer's Theory of the Actual-Language Relation
6.3 A Counterexample to Schiffer's Actual-Language Relation
6.4 Hell-Determining Translators
6.5 Determining a Function
6.6 Repairing Schiffer's Theory [T]?
6.7 A Further Problem for Schiffer's Theory
6.8 Summary

7 Towards a Theory of Meaning

7.1 Introduction
7.2 Saying
7.3 The Unusable
7.4 The Non-conventional and the Unuttered
7.5 The Theory of Meaning

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