ISBN: 9780199571895

Published:

Availability: Contact Customer Service

Hardback

AU$130.95

NZ$178.99

Request an Inspection copy

About The Speaker Towards A Syntax Of Indexicality

Towards a Syntax of Indexicality

Alessandra Giorgi


Alessandra Giorgi considers the semantic and syntactic nature of indexicals - linguistic expressions, as in I, you, this, that, yesterday, tomorrow, whose reference shifts from utterance to utterance. Carefully argued and clearly written her book will appeal widely to semanticists in linguistics and philosophy.
Introduction 1. The speaker's projection 2. Can we ever see the speaker's coordinates in the C-layer? 3. Is the speaker there? An analysis of some anomalous contexts 4. Depending on the future: the speaker changes her perspective 5. When somebody else is speaking: Free Indirect Discourse Concluding Remarks References Index
Alessandra Giorgi , Professor of Linguistics, University of Venice