word
indexicality
in-dek-sih-KAL-ih-tee
ɪnˌdɛksɪˈkælətiListen
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indexicality
Dictionary meaning
the property of linguistic expressions whose reference shifts depending on the context of utterance; indexical terms include 'I,' 'here,' 'now,' 'this,' and tense markers; theorized by Charles Sanders Peirce and developed in formal semantics by David Kaplan; indexicals pose special challenges for theories of meaning because their semantic content cannot be fixed independently of the context in which they are used
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