Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-223) and indexes.
Summary
Alessandra Giorgi considers the semantic and syntactic nature of indexicals: linguistic expressions whose reference shifts from utterance to utterance.
Contents
General Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The speaker's projection; 3 Can we ever see the speaker's coordinates in the C-layer?; 4 Is the speaker there? An analysis of some anomalous contexts; 5 Depending on the future: the speaker changes her perspective; 6 When somebody else is speaking: Free Indirect Discourse; 7 Concluding Remarks; References; Index of Subjects; Index of Names.
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