This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which has loomed large in recent philosophical discussions. In a substantial introduction, the editors survey the field and map out the relevant issues and positions.

François Recanati and Isidora Stojanovic, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France; Neftalí Villanueva, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France, and University of Granada, Spain.