Abstract
This chapter concerns a standard issue in the philosophy of language: the semantics of indexicals and demonstratives. The project is to show that their semantics can be interpreted in a way that breaks down barriers usually assumed to exist between linguistic signs and natural signs. Many nonintentional (“natural”) signs and conventional linguistic signs can be interpreted as containing reflexive components, proper parts that stand for themselves. Besides speaker-reproduced elements, conventional linguistic signs may contain contextual elements as proper selfsigning parts. That linguistic signs can be interpreted as containing components that are selfsigning also yields a novel interpretation of intensional contexts.
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