About the speaker : towards a syntax of indexicality /

Alessandra Giorgi considers the semantic and syntactic nature of indexicals: linguistic expressions whose reference shifts from utterance to utterance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giorgi, Alessandra
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 28.
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Table of Contents:
  • General Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The speaker's projection; 3 Can we ever see the speaker's coordinates in the C-layer?; 4 Is the speaker there? An analysis of some anomalous contexts; 5 Depending on the future: the speaker changes her perspective; 6 When somebody else is speaking: Free Indirect Discourse; 7 Concluding Remarks; References; Index of Subjects; Index of Names.