The boundary between semantics and pragmatics has been important since the early twentieth century, but in the last twenty-five years it has become the central issue in the philosophy of language. This anthology collects classic philosophical papers on the topic, along with recent key contributions. It stresses not only the nature of the boundary, but also its importance for philosophy generally.

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Canonical Foundations Peter F. Strawson, "On Referring" (1950) J.L. Austin, "Performative Utterances" (1956) Keith S. Donnellan, "Reference and Definite Descriptions" (1966) H. Paul Grice, "Logic and Conversation" (1967/1975) Saul Kripke, "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference" (1977) David Kaplan, "Demonstratives" and "Afterthoughts" (1977/1989) Robert C. Stalnaker, "Assertion" (1978) David Lewis, "Scorekeeping in a Language Game" (1979) John Perry, "Thought without Representation" (1986) Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, "Precis of Relevance: Communication and Cognition" (1987) Part II: Pragmatic Determinants of What Is Said John R. Searle, "Literal Meaning" (1978) Robyn Carston, "Implicature, Explicature, and Truth-Theoretic Semantics" (1988) Kent Bach, "Conversational Impliciture" (1994) Jason Stanley, "Context and Logical Form" (2000) Francois Recanati, "Unarticulated Constituents" (2002) Reinaldo Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton, "Shorthand, Syntactic Ellipsis, and the Pragmatic Determinants of What Is Said" (2004) Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore, "A Tall Tale: In Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism" (2004) Emma Borg, "Minimalism versus Contextualism in Semantics" (2007) Part III: Case Studies A. Metaphor Donald Davidson, "What Metaphors Mean" (1978) John R. Searle, "Metaphor" (1979) Catherine Wearing, "Metaphor and What Is Said" (2006) B. Knowledge and Mind David Lewis, "Elusive Knowledge" (1996) Jennifer M. Saul, "Substitution and Simple Sentences" (1997) Max Koelbel, "Faultless Disagreement" (2003) Sources