"Language is about the world— we use it to communicate
about things. So we must ask what this 'aboutness' is:
what is it and how does it work? That is, how does language
manage to hook up with reality?"
— Colin McGinn in Philosophy of Language :
The Classics Explained , MIT Press, Jan. 16, 2015,
as quoted by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
in The New York Review of Books , Oct. 8, 2015
See also a Harvard Crimson review of another book by McGinn.