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Indexicality, context, and pretense: a speech-act theoretic account
Abstract
In this paper, I argue that the notion of ‘context' that has to be used in the study of indexicals is far from univocal. A first distinction has to be made between the real context of speech and the context in which the speech act is supposed to take place — only the latter notion being relevant when it comes to determining the semantic values of indexicals. Second, we need to draw a distinction between the context of the locutionary act and the context of the illocutionary act : contrary to a standard assumption of speech act theory, they can diverge, and their possible divergence explains a number of puzzling phenomena involving indexicals- info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
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- [SCCO.COGDYNAMICS]Cognitive science/domain_scco.cogdynamics
- [SCCO.NAIVEPSYANDSIMU]Cognitive science/domain_scco.naivepsyandsimu
- [SHS.LANGUE.PRAGMATICS]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics/domain_shs.langue.pragmatics
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