You just can't tell: An analysis of the non-specific use of indexicals

Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic 6 (2):103-118 (2001)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In this paper I provide a semantic analysis of non-specific uses of indexical expressions, such as "you" in typical utterances of "you just can't tell". My treatment employs independently motivated conceptual tools, such as the treatment of generics within Discourse Representation Theory, and the distinction between context of utterance and context of interpretation.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

2010

DOI

10.1080/080662001753275927

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,423

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

A Note on Essential Indexicals of Direction.Rogério Passos Severo - 2012 - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 1 (1):10-15.
Descriptive Indexicals and Epistemic Modality.Katarzyna Kijania-Placek - 2017 - Topoi 36 (1):161-170.
Indexické V ý razy (I).Rostislav Niederle - 2002 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 9 (1):1-45.
The impurity of “pure” indexicals.Allyson Mount - 2008 - Philosophical Studies 138 (2):193 - 209.
Demonstratives and Indexicals.Geoff Georgi - 2015 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Fake indexicals: morphosyntax, or pragmasemantics?Emar Maier & Kees de Schepper - 2010
Intentions, indexicals and communication.Stefano Predelli - 2002 - Analysis 62 (4):310–316.
A Remark About Essential Indexicals.Erich Rast - 2008 - The Reasoner 2 (10):5-6.
Proper names and indexicals trigger rigid presuppositions.Emar Maier - 2009 - Journal of Semantics 26 (3):253-315.
The Contingent A Priori: Has It Anything to Do with Indexicals?Timothy Williamson - 1986 - Analysis 46 (3):113 - 117.
Indexicals and utterance production.Dylan Dodd & Paula Sweeney - 2010 - Philosophical Studies 150 (3):331-348.
Indexické výrazy.Rostislav Niederle - 2002 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 9 (3):239-271.
Modal monsters and talk about fiction.Stefano Predelli - 2008 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 37 (3):277-297.
Indexicality and context-shift.François Recanati - unknown
Understanding Temporal Expressions (in Serbo-Croatian).Nenad Miscevic - 1985 - Filozofska Istrazivanja 12:19-32.

Analytics

Added to PP
2010-08-16

Downloads
99 (#171,909)

6 months
14 (#170,561)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Stefano Predelli
Nottingham University

Citations of this work

Indexicals and Names in Proverbs.Katarzyna Kijania-Placek - 2016 - Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 46 (1):59-78.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Themes From Kaplan.Joseph Almog, John Perry & Howard Wettstein (eds.) - 1989 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Direct Reference: From Language to Thought.François Récanati - 1993 - Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell.
Relevance.D. Sperber & Deirdre Wilson - 1986 - Communication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal 2.

View all 13 references / Add more references