目次

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Explanations of word meaning; 3. Meaningand truth; 4. Meaning and language use; 5. Speech act semantics v.truth-conditional semantics; 6. The formalisation of word meaning; 7.Sentence meaning; 8. Ambiguity and vagueness; 9. The logic of naturallanguage; 10. Syntax and semantics; 11. The state of the art andprospects for the future; Bibliography; Index.