Pursuing meaning Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics (roughly features of the literal meaning of linguistic items) and pragmatics (features emerging from the context within which such items are being used) and assesses recent answers to the fundamental questions of how and where to draw the divide between the two. In particular she offers a defence of what is commonly known as minimal semantics. Minimal semantics as the name suggests wants to offer a minimal account of the interrelation between semantics and pragmatics. Specifically it holds that while context can affect literal semantic content in the case of genuine (i.e. lexically or syntactically marked) context sensitive expressions this is the limit of pragmatic input to semantic content. On all other occasions where context of utterance appears to affect content the minimalist claims that what it affects is not literal semantic content but what the speaker conveys by the use of this literal content it affects what a speaker says but not what a sentence means. As Borg makes clear the minimalist must allow some contextual influence on semantic content but her claim is that this influence can be limited to tame pragmatics the kind of rule governed appeals to context which wont scare formally minded horses. Pursuing Meaning aims to make good on this claim. The book also contains an overview of all the main positions in the area clarification of its often complex terminology and an exploration of key themes such as word meaning mindreading and the relationship between semantics and psychology