Kaplan and the Formal and Intentional Aspects of Context
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The blossoming of possible world semantics in the 1960s and 70s set the stage for many developments in research on indexical reference and other aspects of context-sensitivity; I will focus in this chapter on the work of David Kaplan, particularly his influential monograph Demonstratives, because his work is well known, and covers the central issues. I will examine the development of his theory of direct reference as a response to difficulties in adapting model-theoretic semantics to accommodate specific features of natural language—de re readings of indirect discourse, semantic peculiarities of proper names, and especially, the centrality of context-sensitive expressions within the class of directly referential uses of language. Kaplan's work provides a fine-grained conceptual vocabulary for analyzing important contextual influences on meaning, and also recapitulates, in a series of widely discussed contemporary examples, the varied roles that context will be required to play in a comprehensive theory of meaning for natural language. It also displays a step by step progression of thought from extensional models of context, such as those found in Bar-Hillel and Montague, to a view which recognizes inescapable intentional aspects of contextual structure and function. Thus Kaplan's evolving views on indexical reference suggest—if only in broad outlines—much of what a theory of context must contain; in so doing, they set the stage for the theory to be developed in the final chapter.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006