'a very well-conceived anthology' John Perry, Stanford University 'Such a book is long overdue' Kent Bach, San Francisco State University 'a good, solid, well-balanced volume' Radu Bogdan, Tulane University 'It is with some gratitude that we turn to Steven Davis for editing a first collection of canonical texts the knowledge of which any self-respecting pragmaticist should have, presumably, at his or her fingertips ... This is a good collection for argumentative types. It might even provoke one of them to edit and introduce his or her own selection of canonical texts.' International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 'this collection serves admirably, and will endure, both as a reference work and as a teaching tool in advanced courses in language theory' Journal of Literary Semantics