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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"indexicals"”.
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"You" and "I", "now" and "then", and some related thoughts
… 1 concerns indexicality. On classical accounts, indexicals like I, you, and now invariably refer to elements of the actual context of speech. This feature sets indexicals apart from definite descriptions like the best soccer team in Europe. I argue that the orthodoxy is wrong: all indexicals are …
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Indexical Expressions: Syntax and Context
<p>Indexicals are those expressions in natural language–such as I, you, here, and now–whose reference varies with occasion of use, picking out individuals in virtue of their contextual roles. Although analyses of the semantics of indexicals have been advanced–most notably by Kaplan–their syntax has …
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A study of intercultural discourse between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians
… schemas, discourse scenarios and discourse indexicals. A body of 39 audio-taped conversations between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians which ran about 50 hours was collected according to the research tradition of the ethnography of communication. The data were …
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Indexical grounding for a mobile robot
… many of the symbols we must ground are indexicals with critical contextual dependencies. We must therefore handle the implicit context that spatial communication carries with it.
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De de se
… de se show neither of the conditions for shifted indexicals nor West-African logophors, I argue that de se readings of these items must arise as special cases of de re ascription. Cross-linguistic instances of anti-logophoricity (i.e., the obligatory non-de se ascription of pronouns in certain …
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Projected self: the de se across dimensions and beyond pronouns
… account is that the absolute distinction between indexicals and names is denied, as names in Japanese can encode the de se. Moreover, it is shown that Japanese so-called 1st person pronouns are de se in both dimensions, as they are used as self-referring expressions but they are also endowed with …
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Propositional attitudes and indexicality : a cross categorial approach
… is thus a Kaplanian 'monster', and shifted indexicals are analyzed as a morphological variant of De Se pronouns. Logical forms are assumed to be uniform across languages, with morphology as the only source of cross-linguistic variation.
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The Nature of Being
… referential devices (such as demonstratives, indexicals, or proper names). I next defend, in chapter 3, a causal account of the natue of the qualitative properties, according to which a property is qualitative if and only if it plays—or is grounded in properties that play—a fundamental causal …