Indexicals in Fiction

IF 0.1 Q3 Arts and Humanities
R. Vallée
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Abstract Both the semantics of fictional discourse and the semantics of indexicality are canonical topics in the philosophy of language, on which there exists well-known significant literature. However, the same cannot be said for the terrain where they overlap. That is, the distinctive issues raised by fictive uses of indexicals and demonstratives have not been extensively studied per se. The aim of the present essay is to shed some light on this terrain, and to advance our understanding of some of these issues. As it happens, accounting for indexicals in fiction requires the use of innovative new tools. In particular, the standard, familiar taxonomy of types / tokens / utterances is not sufficient to account for the complex cognitive significance and truth-conditions, unique to these kinds of case. For instance: it is widely recognized that, with indexicals generally, semantic properties attach to utterances, not to types or to tokens. But in fiction there are no utterances (in the relevant sense). An innovative notion is required, which I call an “indexed token”. This account of indexicals in fiction, based on the notion of an indexed token, is developed within a Perry (2012)-inspired pluri-propositionalist framework. As such, the present essay constitutes an original application of that framework, extending its already impressive reach.
小说中的索引
小说语篇语义和指标性语义都是语言哲学中的经典话题,在这两个问题上存在着著名的重要文献。然而,它们重叠的地形就不是这样了。也就是说,实际使用指示词和指示词所引起的独特问题本身并没有得到广泛的研究。本文的目的是阐明这一领域,并促进我们对其中一些问题的理解。碰巧的是,在小说中计算指数需要使用创新的新工具。特别是,标准的、熟悉的类型/符号/话语分类不足以解释这类情况特有的复杂认知意义和真实条件。例如:人们普遍认为,对于索引来说,语义属性通常与话语有关,而不是与类型或标记有关。但在小说中没有话语(在相关意义上)。需要一个创新的概念,我称之为“索引令牌”。基于索引标记的概念,这种对小说中索引的描述是在Perry(2012)启发的多元命题主义框架内发展起来的。因此,本文构成了该框架的原始应用,扩展了其已经令人印象深刻的范围。
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Disputatio (Spain)
Disputatio (Spain) Arts and Humanities-Philosophy
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