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"Naming and reference" is a category for books that explore how words, especially names and referring expressions, pick out people, objects, kinds and properties — in other words, how language connects to the world. Works in this category range from classic and contemporary philosophy of language (Frege, Russell, Kripke, Millikan) and formal semantics to linguistics and cognitive science studies of indexicals, pronouns, definite descriptions, anaphora and the semantics–pragmatics interface. It also includes interdisciplinary and applied treatments such as onomastics (the study of names), reference in fiction, sociolinguistic naming practices, and computational approaches to reference resolution in NLP. Typical concerns are theories of meaning and reference, truth-conditions, causal and descriptive accounts of naming, context-dependence, and how naming practices shape and reflect social and cognitive processes; the books can be technical or accessible, aimed at philosophers, linguists, cognitive scientists, legal and AI practitioners, or curious general readers.

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