Chapter Eight: Reference, Existence and Descriptions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Table of Contents xi
4. Introduction
5. Chapter One: Introduction 3
6. Part I: Communication
7. Chapter Two: General Conventions Governing Conversation: the Cooperative Principle and Conversational Maxims 17
8. Chapter Three: Speech Acts: Saying and Doing 43
9. Chapter Four: The Total Content of What a Speaker Communicates 63
10. Chapter Five: Metaphor 79
11. Chapter Six: Applications to Problems in Logic 95
12. Chapter Seven: Utterer's Meaning and Communication 113
13. Part II: Reference
14. Chapter Eight: Reference, Existence and Descriptions 133
15. Chapter Nine: A Speech Act Theory of Referring 149
16. Chapter Ten: The Attributive Use and the Speech Act Theory of Referring 169
17. Chapter Eleven: The Causal and Description Theories of Reference 181
18. Bibliography 193
19. Index 203
20. 206 206