ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates and evaluates the arguments of truth-conditional pragmatics (TCP) by situating it in the academic background of the S/P border war. TCP is interpreted as a moderate contextualism that substantiates a semantic/pragmatic perspective. These construals of TCP pave the way for applying its methodological principles to formulate a semantic theory of quotation. TCP is proposed to provide methodological insights about how referential uses of non-referential terms and non-purely referential uses of referential terms can be handled in pragmatics, which further paves the way for a new characterization of the referential/attributive distinction. The chapter focuses on Recanati's version and examines how TCP reconciles the interface/distinction opposition by inspiring an S/P perspective. It is widely acknowledged that TCP revives contextualism in the protest against the literalist understanding of language as it takes the lead in advancing a contextualist construal of truth-conditional content.
