What is Said: A Theory of Indirect Speech Reports

1: Approaches to Natural Language.- 1. Sentences and Saying.- 2. Saying and Semantics.- 3. Saving Sentences, and What Is Said.- 4. Sentences and Propositions.- 2: Indexicality.- 1. Indexical Expressions.- 2. Some Examples.- 3. Too Many Indexicals?.- 4. The Eliminability of Indexicals.- 5. Russell's Theory of Descriptions.- 3: Alternate Approaches.- 1. The Role of Context.- 2. Donnellan, Sentence Meaning and Speaker Meaning.- 3. The Demonstrative 'The'.- 4: Prolegomenon to a Theory of Speaker Reference.- 1. Two Approaches to Reference.- 2. Desiderata For A Theory of Speaker References.- 3. The Causal Theory.- 4. A Further Constraint.- 5: Speaker Reference.- 1. Two Unsatisfactory Intention-Based Views.- 2. A Fresh Start.- 3. Objections to the Sufficiency of the Conditions.- 4. Objections to the Necessity of the Conditions.- 5. Utterances Involving More Than One Hearer, and in the Absence of An Audience.- 6: Predication, and What is Said.- 1. Speaker Predication.- 2. A Theory of Speaker Predication.- 3. What Is Said.- 4. An Objection.- 5. Brevity and Sentence Fragments.- 6. Unusual But Important Cases.- 7: Concerning Fiction and Fictions.- 1. What Is To Be Explained.- 2. How Not To Explain It.- 3. A Better Explanation.- 4. Some Complications Concerning Fictions.- 8: Further Implications.- 1. Epistemology and the Philosophy of Language.- 2. Methodological Solipsism.- 3. The Intentional Fallacy, and Deconstruction.- 4. What If This Is All Wrong?.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.