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Context of Utterance and Intended Context

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2001)

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In this paper I expose and criticise the distinction between pure indexicals and demonstratives, held by David Kaplan and John Perry. I oppose the context of material production of the utterance to the “intended context” (the context of interpretation, i.e. the context the speaker indicates as semantically relevant): this opposition introduces an intentional feature into the interpretation of pure indexicals. As far as the indexical I is concerned, I maintain that we must distinguish between the material producer of the utterance containing I and the “intended agent of the context” - i.e. the individual designated by the material producer as the responsible for the utterance.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Padua and University of Genoa (Italy), via Balbi 4, 16126, Genova, Italy

    Claudia Bianchi

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, 06533, Turkey

    Varol Akman

  2. Department of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento, 38100, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Bouquet

  3. Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, 2251 Angell Hall, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1003, USA

    Richmond Thomason

  4. Philosophy Department, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK

    Roger Young

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Bianchi, C. (2001). Context of Utterance and Intended Context. In: Akman, V., Bouquet, P., Thomason, R., Young, R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44607-9_6

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