This is a contribution to a book on the semantic/pragmatics distinction in linguistic theory, and looks specifically at the notion of reference. Is it words that refer to things; or is it, rather, people who refer to things, using words to do so? The chapter argues that the most plausible answer is a liberal one, namely, that words AND people refer. It then raises a puzzle for this liberal answer, turning on the phenomenon of substitutability of co-referring expressions. This puzzle is used to a
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Meaning it: the philosophical psychology of speech acts
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AHRC
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Bibliographic Information
Type: Book Chapter
Book Title: Making Semantics Pragmatic (2011)
Page Reference: 49-80
ISBN: 978-0-85724-909-8