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- Antony, L. M. and N. Hornstein, eds. (2003). Chomsky and His Critics, New York: Blackwell. (Scholar)
- Barber, A. (2001). “Idiolectal Error,” Mind and Language, 16 (3): 263–83. (Scholar)
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- Bennett, J. (1976). Linguistic Behaviour, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Bezuidenhout, A.L. (2006). “Language as Internal,” in E. Lepore and B.C. Smith, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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- Borg, E. (2004). Minimal Semantics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Burge, T. (1975). “On Knowledge and Convention,” Philosophical Review, 84: 249–55. (Scholar)
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- Chomsky, N. (1959). “A Review of B. F. Skinner's ‘Verbal Behavior’,” Language, 35 (1): 26–58. (Scholar)
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- Davidson, D. (1976). “Reply to Foster,” in G. Evans and J. McDowell (eds.), Truth and Meaning: Essays in Semantics, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. Reprinted in Davidson 1984. (Scholar)
- ––– (1984). Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- ––– (1986). “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs,” in E. Lepore (ed.), Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell. (Scholar)
- ––– (1990). “The Structure and Content of Truth,” Journal of Philosophy, 87 (6): 279–328. (Scholar)
- Davies, M. (1987). “Tacit Knowledge and Semantic Theory: Can a Five Per Cent Difference Matter?” Mind, 96: 441–62. (Scholar)
- Devitt, M. (2006). Ignorance of Meaning, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Devitt, M. and K. Sterelny (1989). “Linguistics: What's Wrong with ‘The Right View’,” in Philosophical Perspectives, 3: Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory, Atascadero: Ridgeview. (Scholar)
- Dummett, M. (1983). Grammar and Style for Examination Candidates and Others, London: Duckworth. (Scholar)
- ––– (1986). “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs: Some Comments on Davidson and Hacking,” in E. Lepore (ed.), Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Cambridge, UK: Blackwell. (Scholar)
- ––– (1991). The Logical Basis of Metaphysics, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- ––– (1981). “Objections to Chomsky,” London Review of Books, September: 3–16. (Scholar)
- Evans, G. (1981). “Semantic Theory and Tacit Knowledge,” in S. H. Holtzman and C. M. Leich, eds., Wittgenstein: To Follow a Rule, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 118–37. (Scholar)
- Fodor, J. A. (1981). “Some Notes on What Linguistics is About,” in N. Block (ed.), Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology, Volume II, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
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- Grice, H. P. (1957). “Meaning,” Philosophical Review, 66: 377–88. (Scholar)
- ––– (1975). “Logic and conversation,” in P. Cole and J. Morgan (eds.), Syntax and Semantics, Volume 3. London: Academic Press. Reprinted in H. P. Grice, Studies in the Way of Words, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989. (Scholar)
- Hacking, I. (1986). “The Parody of Conversation,” in E. Lepore (ed.), Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, Cambridge, UK: Blackwell. (Scholar)
- Higginbotham, J. (1991). “Remarks on the Metaphysics of Linguistics,” Linguistics and Philosophy, 14: 555–66. (Scholar)
- ––– (2006) “Languages and Idiolects: Their Language and Ours”, in E. Lepore and B.C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Hornstein, N. (1989). “Meaning and the Mental: The Problem of Semantics After Chomsky,” in A. George (ed.), Reflections on Chomsky, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (Scholar)
- Katz, J. J. (1990). The Metaphysics of Meaning, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. (Scholar)
- Knowles, J. (2000). “Knowledge of Grammar As a Propositional Attitude,” Philosophical Psychology, 13 (3): 325–53. (Scholar)
- Larson, R. K. and G. Segal (1995). Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantics, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. (Scholar)
- Laurence, S. (1996). “A Chomskian Alternative to Convention-Based Semantics,” Mind, 105 (418): 269–301. (Scholar)
- Laurence, S. and E. Margolis (2001). “The Poverty of the Stimulus Argument,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 52 (2): 217–76. (Scholar)
- Lewis, D. (1969). Convention: A Philosophical Study, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- ––– (1975). “Languages and Language,” in K. Gunderson (ed.), Language, Mind, and Knowledge (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 7), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Page references are to the reprint in D. Lewis, Collected Papers, Vol. 1, New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. (Scholar)
- Ludlow, P. (2003). “Referential Semantics for I-languages?” in L. M. Antony and N. Hornstein (eds.), Chomsky and His Critics, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 140–61. (Scholar)
- McGilvray, J. (1999). Chomsky: language, mind, and politics, Cambridge, UK: Blackwell. (Scholar)
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- Millikan, R. (2005). “In Defense of Public Language”, Chapter 2 of her Language: A Biological Model, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Nagel, T. (1969). “Linguistics and Epistemology,” in S. Hook (ed.), Language and Philosophy, New York: New York University Press; reprinted in Gilbert Harman, Noam Chomsky: Critical Essays, Garden City: New York, 1974. (Scholar)
- Otero, C. P., ed. (1994). Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
- Peacocke, C. (1986). “Explanation in Computational Psychology: Language, Perception and Level 1.5,” Mind and Language, 1: 101–23. (Scholar)
- Pietroski, P. (1994). “A Defense of Derangement,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 24 (1): 95–117. (Scholar)
- ––– (2003). “The Character of Natural Language Semantics,” in A. Barber (ed.), Epistemology of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Putnam, H. (1975). “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’,” in K. Gunderson (ed.), Language, Mind, and Knowledge, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. (Scholar)
- ––– (1960). Word and Object, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. (Scholar)
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- Recanati, F. (2004) Literal Meaning, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Reimer, M. (2004) What malapropisms mean: a reply to Davidson. Erkenntnis 60: 317-334. (Scholar)
- Rey, G. (2003). “Chomsky, Intentionality and a CRTT,” in L. Antony and N. Hornstein (eds.), Chomsky and His Critics, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 105–139. (Scholar)
- ––– (2004). “Intentional Content and a Chomskian Linguistics,” in A. Barber (ed.), Epistemology of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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- Skinner, B. F. (1957). Verbal Behavior, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. (Scholar)
- Smith, N. (1999). Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Soames, S. (1984). “Linguistics and Psychology,” Linguistics and Philosophy, 7: 155–80. (Scholar)
- Stainton, R. (2006). “Meaning and Reference—Some Chomskian Themes,” in E. Lepore and B. Smith (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Stanley, J. (2000). “Context and Logical Form,” Linguistics and Philosophy, 23 (4): 391–434. (Scholar)
- Szabo, Z., ed. (2005). Semantics vs. Pragmatics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Wallace, J. (1977). “Only in the Context of a Sentence Do Words Have Any Meaning,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 2: 144–64. (Scholar)
- Wiggins, D. (1997). “Languages as Social Objects,” Philosophy, 72 (282): 499–524. (Scholar)
- Wright, C. (1986). “Theories of Meaning and Speakers' Knowledge,” in C. Wright (ed.), Realism, Meaning, and Truth, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Ch. 6. (Scholar)
Further Reading
A general overview of the topic of idiolects can be found in Higginbotham 2006. For a different perspective, see Millikan 2005.
McGilvray 1999 and Smith 1999 both provide clear introductions to Chomsky's philosophy of language and linguistics, including his E-/I-language distinction. A shorter account of his views on this topic in particular can be found in Bezuidenhout 2006. Critical discussion can be found in four collections: Otero 1994 (Volume II), Antony and Hornstein 2003, Barber 2003, and McGilvray 2005. Chomsky's own non-technical writing is usually accessible. A good starting place would be the second chapter of Chomsky 1986 or the essays in Chomsky 2000.
Three papers in Davidson 1984 (‘What metaphors mean’, ‘Communication and convention’, and ‘Mood and Performances’) herald the anti-conventionalism of his 1986 essay, which is discussed in detail by Hacking 1986, Dummett 1986, Pietroski 1994, and Reimer 2004. Hacking addresses the extent to which Davidson's conclusion undermines his earlier philosophy of language. Dummett attempts to show that the notion of a prior theory presupposes the notion of a linguistic community, and hence of a shared language. For more recent work on the pragmatics/semantics boundary, see Stanley 2000, Carston 2002, Borg 2004, Recanati 2004, Cappelen and Lepore 2005, and Szabo 2005.
The theory of conventions used in Lewis 1975 (see Appendix) is developed at length in Lewis 1969. The resulting theory of language is elaborated by Bennett 1976 and criticised in Burge 1975 and Laurence 1996, the latter from a Chomskian perspective.
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