威廉·G. 莱肯(William G. Lycan)是哲学家、北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校名誉教授、康涅狄格大学杰出客座教授,著有《当代语言哲学纲要(第三版)》《意识与经验》《真实条件》等。
Contents 1 Introduction: Meaning and Reference 1 PART I Reference and Referring 7 2 Definite Descriptions 9 3 Proper Names: The Description Theory 31 4 Proper Names: Direct Reference and the CausalHistorical Theory 45 PART II Theories of Meaning 67 5 Traditional Theories of Meaning 69 6 Use Theories 79 7 Psychological Theories: Grices Program 90 8 Verificationism 103 9 Truth-Condition Theories: Davidsons Program 114 10 Truth-Condition Theories: Possible Worlds and Intensional Semantics 129 PART III Pragmatics and Speech Acts 139 11 Semantic Pragmatics 141 12 Speech Acts and Illocutionary Force 150 13 Implicative Relations 162 PART IV The Expressive and the Figurative 181 14 Expressive Language 183 15 Metaphor 196 Glossary 215 Bibliography 218 Index 233