Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- 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 -- 12 Varieties of semantic evidence -- 13 Methods in cross-linguistic semantics -- 14 Formal methods in semantics -- 15 The application of experimental methods in semantics -- Index