Mena, Ricardo (2022) Metalinguistic and metacontextual effects. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 37 (3). pp. 275-290. ISSN 2171-679X
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Abstract
Some assertions that are not about the meanings of the words used can transmit information about those meanings. In (Mena, 2022) I offered an explanation of that phenomenon purely in semantic terms. The novelty of that theory consists in including interpretations of language in circumstances of evaluation: the parameters relative to which we evaluate the contents of linguistic expressions. In this paper I argue that assertions of sentences containing indexicals can communicate information about the context of use, even though those sentences are not about contexts. Given this, I offer an extension of my theory of metalinguistic effects to model indexicals in an analogous way. Also, I discuss the many ways in which the theory presented here differs from other bidimensional semantics.
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| Additional Information: | ISSN: 0495-4548 (print) | ||||||
| Keywords: | philosophy of language, metalinguistic effects, context, indexicals | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email theoria@ehu.es | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2023 20:57 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2023 20:57 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 21727 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/THEORIA/article/view... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1387/theoria.23458 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Reductionism/Holism |
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| Date: | September 2022 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 275-290 | ||||||
| Volume: | 37 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2171-679X | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21727 |
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