Communication and reference

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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Part I: Communication -- Chapter Two: General Conventions Governing Conversation: the Cooperative Principle and Conversational Maxims -- Chapter Three: Speech Acts: Saying and Doing -- Chapter Four: The Total Content of What a Speaker Communicates -- Chapter Five: Metaphor -- Chapter Six: Applications to Problems in Logic -- Chapter Seven: Utterer's Meaning and Communication -- Part II: Reference -- Chapter Eight: Reference, Existence and Descriptions -- Chapter Nine: A Speech Act Theory of Referring -- Chapter Ten: The Attributive Use and the Speech Act Theory of Referring -- Chapter Eleven: The Causal and Description Theories of Reference -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter