pragmatics and indexicality

Pragmatics Microfiche 1 (4):D5-D11 (1975)
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Abstract

A conception of pragmatics distinguishes pragmatics from semantics proper in terms of indexicality: semantics is conceived as the quest for a truth definition for languages without indexical expressions; pragmatics is conceived as a quest for a truth definition for languages with indexical expressions. I argue that indexicality is not a feature that can be used to capture anything like what Morris and Carnap had in mind.

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Charles Sayward
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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