Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Foundations of semantics -- 1. Meaning in linguistics -- 2. Meaning, intentionality and communication -- 3. (Frege on) Sense and reference -- 4. Reference: Foundational issues -- 5. Meaning in language use -- 6. Compositionality -- 7. Lexical decomposition: Foundational issues -- II. History of semantics -- 8. Meaning in pre-19th century thought -- 9. The emergence of linguistic semantics in the 19th and early 20th century -- 10. The influence of logic on semantics -- 11. Formal semantics and representationalism -- III. Methods in semantic research -- 12. Varieties of semantic evidence -- 13. Methods in cross-linguistic semantics -- 14. Formal methods in semantics -- 15. The application of experimental methods in semantics -- IV. Lexical semantics -- 16. Semantic features and primes -- 17. Frameworks of lexical decomposition of verbs -- 18. Thematic roles -- 19. Lexical Conceptual Structure -- 20. Idioms and collocations -- 21. Sense relations -- 22. Dual oppositions in lexical meaning -- V. Ambiguity and vagueness -- 23. Ambiguity and vagueness: An overview -- 24. Semantic underspecification -- 25. Mismatches and coercion -- 26. Metaphors and metonymies -- VI. Cognitively oriented approaches to semantics -- 27. Cognitive Semantics: An overview -- 28. Prototype theory -- 29. Frame Semantics -- 30. Conceptual Semantics -- 31. Two-level Semantics: Semantic Form and Conceptual Structure -- 32. Word meaning and world knowledge -- VII. Theories of sentence semantics -- 33. Model-theoretic semantics -- 34. Event semantics -- 35. Situation Semantics and the ontology of natural language -- VIII. Theories of discourse semantics -- 36. Situation Semantics: From indexicality to metacommunicative interaction -- 37. Discourse Representation Theory -- 38. Dynamic semantics -- 39. Rhetorical relations