'Written to appeal to a wide audience, this book provides rigorous, detailed scholarly analysis and evaluation of its subject matter and is at the same time accessible to nonspecialists. It is intended as a textbook, and it includes questions and exercises at the end of each chapter ... Recommended' 
— D. B. Boersema in CHOICE

'Cappelen and Dever have written an admirable textbook that addresses an important lacuna. ... Designed for beginning undergraduates with no prior knowledge of the field, it aims to move philosophy of language instruction away from idealizations towards the "real world" ... The book has much to recommend it ... It includes excellent and convenient pedagogical apparatus: a detailed table of contents; well-conceived exercises; terrific, cutting-edge further readings; and chapter summaries. There are lovely, intriguing, intuitive examples that students will enjoy. Most importantly, it successfully renders philosophy of language much more relevant to current social issues: in their hands, it isn’t all about "the" and names; and its heyday didn’t terminate in the 1970s. ... it’s wonderful to see philosophy of language made so relevant to ethical, social and political concerns. It’s a salutary development for the 21st Century. And Cappelen and Dever’s newest textbook is a very useful resource for teaching it. I expect the book to be adopted widely.' 
— Robert J. Stainton in Philosophy in Review (vol. 41 no. 1 (February 2021))