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In this essay I propose a semantic analysis of impersonal uses of ‘you’, and related uses of other indexical expressions. The framework I employ is Kaplan’s classic analysis of indexical languages, enriched with independently motivated hypotheses about the identification of the semantically relevant context, and about the employment of generic expressions.

The Impersonal ‘you’ and Other Indexicals

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In this essay I propose a semantic analysis of impersonal uses of ‘you’, and related uses of other indexical expressions. The framework I employ is Kaplan’s...

The Impersonal ‘you’ and Other Indexicals

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2004-0001

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