Contents 8
1 Communication and Speech Acts 10
1.1 The communicative functions of language 11
1.2 Communication and performance 21
1.3 Knotty performances: locutionary contents, illocutionary forces and perlocutionary effects 30
2 Meaning, Sense and Interpretation 48
2.1 Two traditions in Philosophy of Language 48
2.2 From Frege to Donnellan: reference, names and descriptions 56
2.3 Interpretation and translation: neo-empiricist and hermeneutic approaches to linguistic understanding 79
3 Indeterminacy and Language Learning: Communication as the Meeting of Minds 94
3.1 Meaning scepticism 95
3.2 Two philosophical models of language learning 104
3.3 Enculturation and shared intentionality 111
3.4 Conversation analysis 114
4 Linguistic Creativity and Relativism 120
4.1 Linguistic creativity and the sociology of language 120
4.2 Metaphor 130
4.3 Linguistic relativism 140
5 Speakers, Linguistic Communities and Histories of Use 148
5.1 Idiosyncrasies and conventions 148
5.2 Communities, deconstruction and histories of use 162
6 Language and Identity 177
6.1 Interpellation and censorship 177
6.2 Tongues untied 189
Notes 195
References 206
Further Suggested Reading 212
Index 217
A 217
B 217
C 218
D 219
E 219
F 219
G 220
H 220
I 220
J 221
K 221
L 221
M 222
N 222
O 222
P 222
Q 223
R 223
S 224
T 225
U 225
V 225
W 225