Publications

Review. Stainton, R.J. J.L. Austin by M. Rowe. Philosophy in Review. View

Book Chapter. Lavallee, N. & Stainton R.J. Thomas Reid on Linguistics and Philosophy of Language. In Nesi, H. and Milin, P. (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition. Elsevier. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. & Yu, Y. The Meaning of Sociolinguistic Register: Is It Semantic? In Nesi, H. & Milin, P. (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd edition. Elsevier. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. Interpreting Donnellan on the Attributive Use. In Lepore, E. & Sosa, D. (Eds.) Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language. Volume 4. Oxford University Press. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J., Sullivan, A. & Viger, C. Platonism in the Philosophy of Linguistics. In Nefdt, R., Dupre, G. & Stanton, K. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Linguistics. Oxford. View

2025

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. & Viger, C. (2025). Do Languages Really Exist? In Lepore, E. & Stojnić, U. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Language (pp.3-23). Oxford University Press. View

2024

Review. Stainton, R.J. (2024). Pragmatics in English: An Introduction, by Kate Scott. Philosophy in Review 44(4), 35-37. View

Review. Hill, B. & Stainton, R.J. (2024). Materialism from Hobbes to Locke, by Stewart Duncan. Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana De Filosofía 56(168), 77–80. View

2023

Review. Stainton, R.J. & Sullivan, A. (2023). Context and Coherence by Una Stojnić. Journal of Pragmatics 206, 56-58. View

2022

Article. Stainton, R.J. & Viger, C. (2022). Troubles with Rey’s Linguistic Eliminativism. Mind & Language 37(2), 261-273. View

Article. Stainton, R.J. & Sullivan, A. (2022). Varieties of Context-Sensitivity in a Pluri-Propositional Reflexive Semantic Framework. Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy 14(66), 195-204. View

Article. Stainton, R.J. & Sullivan, A. (2022). First-Person Plural Indexicals. Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy 14(66), 271-304. View

2021

Review. Stainton, R.J. & Sullivan, A. (2021). Critical Notice of Words and Contents, by Richard Vallée. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 51(2), 143-157. View

Review. Stainton, R.J. (2021). Bad Language: Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy of Language by Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever. Philosophy in Review. 41(1), 4-6. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. & Barber, A. (2021). Linguistic Prescriptivism. In Khoo, J., Sterken, R. K. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language (pp-56-59). Routledge. View

2020

Article. Diaz-Legaspe, J., Liu, C. & Stainton, R.J. (2020). Slurs and Register: A Case Study in Meaning Pluralism. Mind and Language. 35(2), 156-182 View

Article. Diaz-Legaspe, J. & Stainton, R.J. (2020). Emociones, Ofensa y Registro Sociolingüístico: el caso de los “usos distantes” de los términos discriminatorios. Critica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía. 51(153), 3-29. View

2019

Article. Stainton, R.J. (2019). Re-reading Anscombe on ‘I’. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 49(1), 70-93. View

Book Chapter. Barceló, A. & Stainton, R.J. (2019). Quasi-Factives and Cognitive Efficiency. In Scott, K., Clark, B. & Carston, R. (Eds.), Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation (pp.53-65). Cambridge University Press. View

2018

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. & Viger, C. (2018). Two Questions about Interpretive Effects. In Preyer, G. (Ed.). Beyond Semantics and Pragmatics (pp.9-31). Oxford University Press. View

Edited Book. Cresswell, O. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.). (2018). Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice: The Theory and Applications of Molecular Sememics. Springer Nature. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2018). Introduction. In Cresswell, O., Stainton, R.J. (Eds.), Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice The Theory and Applications of Molecular Sememics. Springer Nature. View

Article. Botterell, A. & Stainton, R.J. (2018). An Anscombean Reference for ‘I’? Croatian Journal of Philosophy 18(54), 343-361. View

2017

Book Chapter. Jary, M. & Stainton, R.J. (2017). Contextualism in Epistemology and Relevance Theory. In Ichikawa, J. (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism (pp.480-492). Routledge. View

Edited Book. Cameron, M., Hill, B. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.) (2017). Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language. Springer International Publishing. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2017). John Wilkins. In Cameron, M., Hill, B. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.) Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language (pp. 685-711). Springer International Publishing. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2017). Preface. In Cameron, M., Hill, B. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.) Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language (pp.v–vi). Springer International Publishing. View

Article. Botterell, A. & Stainton, R.J. (2017). Logical Form and the Vernacular Revisited. Mind & Language 32(4), 495-522. View

2016

Article. Stainton, R.J. (2016). A Deranged Argument Against Public Languages. Inquiry 59(1), 6-32. View

Article. Stainton, R.J. (2016). Full-on Stating. Mind & Language 31(4), 395-413. View

Book Chapter. Gomashie, G. A. & Stainton, R.J. (2016). Verbing and Nouning. In Weekes-Shackelford, V. & Shackelford, T. K. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1-3). Springer International Publishing. View

Article. Barceló, A. & Stainton R.J. (2016). Cuasi-factivos. Elenkhos 1(1), 65-88. View

2015

Edited Book. Cameron, M. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.). (2015). Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language. Oxford University Press. View

Book Chapter. Cameron, M. & Stainton, R.J. (2015). Introduction. In Cameron, M. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.), Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language. Oxford University Press. View

2014

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2014). Philosophy of Linguistics. In S. Goldberg (Ed.) Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press. View

Review. McMillan, M. & Stainton, R.J. (2014). Brevity, by Laurence Goldstein (ed.). Philosophy in Review. 34(6), 305-308. View

Book Chapter. Eraña, Á. & Stainton, R.J. (2014). La Psicología de la Justificación. In King, P., González, J. & González de Luna, E. (Eds.), Ciencias Cognitivas y Filosofía: Entre la Cooperación y la Integración (pp. 181-199). Editorial MA Porrúa. View

2013

Review. Stainton, R.J. (2013). Herder and Pragmatics: Review of Michael M. Forster’s After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition. International Review of Pragmatics 5(1), 117-127. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2013). The Role of Psychology in the Philosophy of Language. In Graff Fara, D. & Russell, G. (Eds.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language (pp. 525-532). Routledge. View

Edited Book. Ezcurdia, M. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.). (2013). The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy. Broadview. View

Book Chapter. Ezcurdia, M. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.). (2013). Introduction. In Ezcurdia, M. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.), The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy (pp. xiii–xxxiv). Broadview. View.

Review. MacAulay, M. & Stainton, R.J. (2013). Lying, Misleading, and What is Said: An Exploration in Philosophy of Language and in Ethics, by Jennifer Mather Saul. Philosophy in Review 33(5), 403-405. View

Article. de Villiers, J., Myers, B. & Stainton, R.J. (2013). Revisiting Pragmatic Abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A follow-up study with controls. Pragmatics & Cognition 21(2), 253-269. View

2012

Book Chapter. de Villiers, J., Myers, B. & Stainton, R.J. (2012). Differential Pragmatic Abilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Case of Pragmatic Determinants of Literal Content. In M. Macaulay & Garcés-Blitvich, P. (Eds.), Pragmatics and Context (pp. 21-42). Antares. View

2011

Article. Stainton, R.J. (2012). In Defense of Public Languages. Linguistics and Philosophy 34(5), 479-488. View

Article. Stainton. R.J. (2011). Pragmatic Impairments. International Review of Pragmatics 3(1), 85-97. View

2010

Encyclopedia Entry. Stainton, R.J. (2010). Philosophy of Language. In Cummings, L. (Ed.), The Pragmatics Encyclopedia (pp. 318-323). Taylor & Francis Group. View

Review. Stainton, R.J. (2010). Clinical Pragmatics, by Louise Cummings. Journal of Linguistics 46(2), 499-502. View

Book Chapter. Elugardo R. & Stainton, R.J. (2010). Identity through Change and Substitutivity Salva Veritate. In O’Rourke, M. et al. (Eds.), Topics in Contemporary Philosophy (pp. 113-128). MIT Press. View

Article. Barceló Aspeitia, A., Eraña, Á. & Stainton, R.J. (2010). The Contribution of Domain Specificity in the Highly Modular Mind. Minds & Machines 20(1), 19-27. View

Edited Book. Barber, A. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.). (2010). Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier. View

2009

Edited Book. Viger, C. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.). (2009). Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values. Springer. View

Article. Stainton, R.J. (2009). Perry, Wittgenstein’s Builders, and Metasemantics. Pragmatics & Cognition 17(2), 203-221. View

Review. Stainton, R.J. (2009). Hegel’s Philosophy Language, by Jim Vernon. Philosophy in Review 29(3), 226-228. View

Review. Ileana, P. & Stainton, R.J. (2009). An Essay on Names and Truth, by Wolfram Hinzen. Mind 118(470), 470-475. View

Edited Book. de Villiers, J. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.). (2009). Michael Gregory’s Proposals for a Communication Linguistics. Editions du GREF.

2008

Review. Stainton, R.J. (2008). Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy, by Hannah Dawson. Philosophy in Review 28(5), 326-329. View

Review. Stainton, R.J. (2008). French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States, by François Cusset. Philosophy in Review. 28(6), 400-402. View

Edited Book. Lennon, T. M. & Stainton, R.J. (Eds.). (2008). The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology. Springer. View

2007

Book Chapter. de Villiers, J. & Stainton, R.J. (2007).  Pragmatic Abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case Study in Philosophy and the Empirical. In French, P. A. & Wettstein, H. K. (Eds.). Philosophy and the Empirical. Volume XXXI of Midwest Studies in Philosophy (pp. 292-317) Blackwell  View

2006

Review. Wearing, C. & Stainton, R.J. (2006). Insensitive Semantics : a defense of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism, by Herman Cappelen & Ernie Lepore. Journal of Linguistics 42(1), 187-190. View

Review. Stainton, R J. (2006). Things We Mean, by Stephen Schiffer. The Philosophical Review 115(1), 105-107. View

Article. Stainton, R.J. (2006). Terminological Reflections of an Enlightened Contextualist. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73(2), 460-468. View

Book. Stainton, R.J. (2006). Words and Thoughts: Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language. Oxford University Press. View

Article. Stainton. R.J. (2006). Revenge. Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 38(112), 3-20. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2006). Neither Fragments nor Ellipsis. In Progovac, L. et al. (Eds.). The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 93-116). John Benjamins Publishing Company. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2006). Meaning and Reference: Chomskian Themes. In Lepore, E. & Smith, B. (Eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Language (pp. 913-940). Oxford University Press. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2006). Metaphysics, Substitution Salva Veritate and the Slingshot Argument. In Brown, K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, Second Edition (pp. 73-82). Elsevier. View

Book Chapter. Ileana, P. & Stainton, R.J. (2006). Really Intriguing, that Pred NP! In M. Radisic & C. Gurski (Eds.). Proceedings of the 2006 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association (pp. 1-10). View

Report. Junker, M. O., Wearing, C. & Stainton, R.J. (2006). The Semantics and Syntax of Null Complements. Carleton University Cognitive Science Technical Report 2006-03. View

Book Chapter. Iten, C., Stainton, R.J. & Wearing, C. (2006). On Restricting the Evidence Base for Linguistics. In Thagard, P. (Ed.). Handbook of the Philosophy of Science (pp. 219-246). Elsevier. View

2005

Encyclopedia Entry. Stainton, R.J. (2005). The Context Principle. In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition. Elsevier. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2005). In Defense of Non-Sentential Assertion. In Szabo, Z. G. (Ed)., Semantics versus Pragmatics (pp.383-458). Oxford University Press. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2005). Grice, H. Paul (1913-1988). In Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (pp. 983-988). Thoemmes Press. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2005). Cornman, James W. (1929-1978). In Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (pp.544-545). Thoemmes Press. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2005). Cartwright, Richard L. (1925-). In Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (pp.444-454). Thoemmes Press. View

Book Chapter. Clapp, J. & Stainton, R.J. (2005) Bromberger, Sylvain (1924 -). In Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (pp. 352-354). Thoemmes Press. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R.J. (2005). Objects, Properties and Functions. In Brown, K. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, (pp.5-14). Elsevier. View

Conference Paper. Iten, C., Junker, M. O., Pyke, A., Stainton, R.J. & Wearing, C. (2005). Null Complements: Licensed by Syntax or by Semantics-Pragmatics. In Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. View

Edited Book. Elugardo, R. & Stainton, R. (Eds.). (2005). Ellipsis and Non-Sentential Speech. Dordrecht: Springer. View

Book Chapter. Elugardo R. & Stainton, R. J. (2005). Introduction. In Elugardo, R. & Stainton, R. (Eds.), Ellipsis and Non-Sentential Speech (pp.1-26). Springer. View

Article. Botterell, A. & Stainton, R. J. (2005). Quotation: Compositionality and Innocence without Demonstration. Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 37(110), 3-33. View

2004

Book Chapter. Ezcurdia, M., Stainton, R. J. & Viger, C. D. (2004). Introduction. In Ezcurdia, M., Stainton, R. J. & Viger, C. D. (Eds.) New Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Mind (pp.vii–xiii). University of Calgary Press. View

Edited Book. Ezcurdia, M., Stainton, R. J. & Viger, C. D. (Eds.). (2004). New Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Mind. University of Calgary Press.

Book Chapter. Stainton, R. J. (2004). Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness “in Isolation,” and Ellipsis. In Davis, S. & Gillon, B. S. (Eds.), Semantics (pp. 846-866). Oxford University Press. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R. J. (2004). The Pragmatics of Non-Sentences. In Horn, L. R. & Ward, G. (Eds.), The Handbook of Pragmatics (pp. 266-287). Blackwell Publishers. View

Article. Elugardo, R. & Stainton, R. J. (2004). Shorthand, Syntactic Ellipsis, and the Pragmatic Determinants of What Is Said. Mind & Language 19(4), 442-471. View

2003

Article. Stainton, R. J. (2003). Speaker Meaning and Davidson on Metaphor: A Reply to McGuire. Dialogue 42(2), 354-354. View

Article. Pelletier, F. J. & Stainton, R. J. (2003). On ‘the Denial of Bivalence is Absurd’. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 81(3), 369-382. View

Book Chapter. Elugardo, R. & Stainton, R. J. (2003). Grasping Objects and Contents. In Barber, A. (Ed.), Epistemology of Language (pp. 257-302). Oxford University Press.

Book Chapter. Matheson, D. & Stainton, R. J. (2003). Varieties of Empiricism. In Bouchard, Y. (Ed.), Perspectives on Coherentism (pp. 99-113). Editions du Scribe. View

2002

Review. Eluardo, R. & Stainton, R. J. (2002). Unshadowed Thought: Representations in Thought and Language, by Charles Travis. Philosophical Review 111(3), 524-545. View

Book Chapter. Clapp, L & Stainton, R. J. (2002). “Obviously Propositions are nothing”: Russell and the Logical Form of Belief Reports. In Preyer, G. & Peter, G. (eds.) Logical Form and Language (pp. 409-420). Oxford University Press. View

2001

Report. Stainton, R. J. (2001). Linguistics Interpretation and Cognitive Science. Carleton University Cognitive Science Technical Report. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R. J. (2001). Communicative Events as Evidence in Linguistics. In de Villiers, J. & Stainton, R. (Eds.), Papers in Honour of Michael Gregory (pp. 329-346). Editions du GREF. View

Article. Elugardo, R. & Stainton, R. J. (2001). Logical Form and the Vernacular. Mind & Language 16(4), 393-424. View

Edited Book. de Villiers, J. Stainton, R. J. (Eds.). (2001). Papers in Honour of Michael Gregory. Editions du GREF.

2000

Review. Stainton, R. J. & Viger, C. (2000). Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong, by Jerry A. Fodor. Synthese 123(1), 131-151. View

Article. Stainton, R. J. (2000). Objects and Senses and Substitutions: A Reply to Dwyer. Dialogue 39(3), 593-600. View

Article. Stainton, R. J. (2000). The Meaning of ‘Sentences’. Noûs 34(3), 441-454. View

Edited Book. Stainton, R. J. (Ed.). (2000). Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language: A Concise Anthology. Broadview. View

Review. Stainton, R. J. (2000). Concepts: Core Readings, edited by Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence. Philosophy in Review 20(2), 137-139. View

Book. Brook, A., Stainton, R. J. (2000). Knowledge and Mind: A Philosophical Introduction. The MIT Press. View

Article. Arseneault, M., Stainton, R. J. (2000). Holisme et homophonie. Dialogue. 39(1), 123-128. View

Webpage Entry. Stainton, R. J. (2000). The Library of Living Philosophers: Willard V. Quine. Philosophy Now. https://philosophynow.org/issues/28/Willard_V_Quine

1999

Article. Stainton, R. J. (1999). Interrogatives and Sets of Answers. Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 31(91), 75-90. View

Article. Stainton, R. J. (1999). Robust Belief States and the Right/Wrong Dichotomy. Disputatio 1(6), 18-27. View

Review. Stainton, R. J. (1999). Fundamentos de Lógica Simbólica: el cálculo de deducción natural, by Rosa F. Martínez Cruzado. Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 31(91), 108-116. View

Book Chapter. Stainton, R. J. (1999). Remarks on the Syntax and Semantics of Mixed Quotation. In Murasugi, K. & Stainton, R. J. (Eds)., Philosophy and Linguistics (pp.259-278). Westview Press. View

Review. Stainton, R. J. (1999). Meaning, Creativity and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind, by Julius M. Moravcsik. Philosophy in Review 19(5), 364-366. View

Edited Book. Murasugi, K. & Stainton, R. J. (Eds.). (1999). Philosophy and Linguistics. Westview. View

1998

Article. Stainton, R. J. (1998). Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness “in Isolation”, and Ellipsis. Linguistics and Philosophy 21(3), 311-34. View

Article. Stainton, R. J. (1998). Unembedded Definite Descriptions and Relevance. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 11, 231-239. View

Review. Stainton, R. J. (1998). Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English: A Minimalist Approach, by Andrew Radford. Philosophy in Review 18(3), 229-232. View

1997

Article. Stainton, R. J. (1997). The Deflation of Belief States. Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 29(85), 95-119. View

Review. Stainton, R. J. (1997). Language, Thought and Consciousness: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology, by Peter Carruthers. Language 73(3), 688-689. View

Article. Stainton, R. J. (1997). What Assertion Is Not. Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition 85(1), 57-73. View

Article. Stainton, R. J. (1997). Utterance Meaning and Syntactic Ellipsis. Pragmatics and Cognition 5(1), 49-76. View

Review. Stainton, R. J. (1997). Consciousness and the Origins of Thought, by Norton Nelkin. Philosophy in Review 17(6), 434-436. View

Article. Brook, A. & Stainton, R. J. (1997). Fodor’s New Theory of Content and Computation. Mind & Language 12(3-4), 459-474. View

1996

Article. Stainton, R. J. (1996). The Deflation of Belief Contents. Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 28(84), 63-82. View

Review. Stainton, R. J. (1996). What Else can I Tell You? A Pragmatic Study of English Rhetorical Questions as Discursive and Argumentative Acts, by Cornelia Ilie. Language 72(2), 429-430. View

Book. Stainton, R. J. (1996). Philosophical Perspectives on Language. Broadview Press. View

Review. Stainton, R. J. (1996). Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology, by T. Horgan and J. Tienson. Canadian Philosophical Reviews 16(6), 42-43. View

1995

Article. Stainton, R. J. (1995). Indeterminacy, Opacity and the Identity Theory. Crítica 27(80), 49-56. View

Article. Stainton, R. J. (1995). Non-Sentential Assertions and Semantic Ellipsis. Linguistics and Philosophy 18(3), 281-296. View

Review. Stainton, R. J. (1995). Dynamics of Meaning: Anaphora, Presupposition, and the Theory of Grammar, by Gennaro Chierchia. Canadian Philosophical Reviews 15(3), 314-316. View

Article. Stainton, R. J. (1995). A Note on Pedir and Control in Spanish. Cahiers Linguistiques d’Ottawa 23, 11-22. View

1994

Article. Stainton, R. J. (1994). Using Non-Sentences: An Application of Relevance Theory. Pragmatics and Cognition 2(2), 269-284. View

1990

Book Chapter. Stainton, R. J. (1990). Academic Environments: Research and Teaching at Universities and Colleges. In McElhinny, B. S. (Ed.). Proceedings of the 1989 Mellon Fellows’ Conference on Teaching.