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Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua. 1954. Indexical expressions. Mind 63 : 359–379.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context dependence | indexical

Journal WWW

www3.oup.co.uk/mind/

Annotation

B.-H. argues that indexical expressions (e.g. sentence-types like 'It is raining' or 'I'm hungry', which can be used to make different statements because of propositional differences depending on the context, as opposed to sentence-types like 'Ice floats on water' which always express the same proposition) show that sentences do not only consist of syntactic and semantic relations, but of pragmatic relations as well.

Translations

Schmidt, Siegfried J. 1974. Indexicalische Ausdrücke. In Schmidt, Siegfried J., ed. Pragmatik I: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Erforschung der sprachlichen Kommunikation. W. Fink. pp. 166–186.

Reprints

Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua. 1970. In Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua, ed. Aspects of language: Essays and lectures on philosophy of language, linguistic philosophy and methodology of linguistics. North-Holland. pp. 69–81.