Ok for basics but simply insufficient
I studied this text for an introductory course on the philosophy of language at ANU. While it is case that this text is somewhat comprehensive and reasonably well written, it is simply much much too brief in its accounts to be a worthwhile purchase. When it came time to write my essays, this text gave me the basic idea but i couldnt rely on it to provide the desired depth and substance needed to have a hope of writing an HD essay. I would suggest that your better off buying a text that does not try to cover so much territory in such a short space. there are massive wholes in some of the theoretical descriptions. for example, when it comes to Grice's analysis of sentence meaning, his account is tantamount to saying "this is too complicated and i dont really understand it so i wont cover it" - he therefore only provides half of the story of the analysis of meaning through intention.In short this text was disappointing!