ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
Olga Aleksandrovna Kozyreva
Ural Institute of Humanities, 51 Lenin ave., Ekaterinburg, 620000, Russia
Keywords: semantics, pragmatics, reference, meaning, context dependence, indexical
Abstract
The article discusses the relationship between semantics and pragmatics of natural languages. The idea that we have to modify D. Kaplan’s semantics for dealing with indexicals and demonstratives is presented; an objection to this idea based on the unnecessary character of such semantic modification because we can explain the controversial cases by appealing to pragmatics is considered. The author argues that the attempts to pragmatize semantics are based on the idea that semantics is subordinated to the goal of explaining language communication.
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