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The purpose of the essential indexical
This paper takes indexicality as a case-study for critical examination of the distinction between semantics and pragmatics as currently conceived in mainstream philosophy of language. Both a ‘pre-indexical’ and ‘post-indexical’ analytic formal semantics are examined and found wanting, and instead an argument is mounted for a ‘properly pragmatist pragmatics’, according to which we do not work out what signs mean in some abstract overall sense and then work out to what use they are being put; rather, we must understand to what use signs are being put in order to work out what they mean.
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The Commens Working Papers: Preprints, Research Reports & Scientific CommunicationsVolume
6Series
Commens working papers: preprints, research reports and scientific communicationsPagination
1 - 14Publisher
Commens Working PapersPlace of publication
[London, Eng.]ISSN
2342-4532Language
engPublication classification
A6.1 Research report/technical paperCopyright notice
[2015, Catherine Legg]Usage metrics
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