Papers gathered in the two volumes investigate the complex relations between philosophy of language and linguistics, viewed as independent, but mutually influencing one another, disciplines. They concentrate on the ‘formal’ and ‘philosophical’ turns in the philosophy of language, initiated by Gottlob Frege, with further developments associated with the work of Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, W.O.V. Quine, Richard Montague, Pavel Tichý, Richard Rorty. The volumes bring together contributions by philosophers, logicians and linguists, representing different theoretical orientations but united in outlining the common ground, necessary for further research in philosophy of language and linguistics. The papers were submitted and, in most cases, presented at the first International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, PhiLang2009, organized by the Chair of English and General Linguistics at the University of Lódz.

• Philosophy of Language and Linguistics: The Formal Turn. Preface 10
• Philosophy, Linguistics and Semantic Interpretation 26
• An Unresolved Issue: Nonsense in Natural Language and Non-Classical Logical and Semantic Systems 52
• Varieties of Context-Dependence* 72
• The Logos of Semantic Structure 94
• The Good Samaritan and the Hygienic Cook: A Cautionary Tale About Linguistic Data 112
• The Meaning of Multiple Quantified Sentences: Where Formal Semantics Meets Psycholinguistics 128
• The Hybrid Theory of Reference for ProperNames 146
• On the Nature of Statistical Language Laws 160
• Vagueness and Contextualism 178
• The Myth of Semantic Structure* 192
• Scalar Implicatures, Communication, and Language Evolution 208
• Semantics and Contextuality: The Case of Pia’s Leaves 224
• Is Logico-Semantical Analysis of Natural Language Expressions a Translation? 238
• Beyond the Fregean Myth: The Value of Logical Values 254