Göttingen: V&R unipress, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (
2020)
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Abstract
Theauthorproposesanewvariantofsemanticminimalismcombininganti-intentionalism(theviewaccordingtowhichthesemanticcontentofutteredsentencesisindependentofspeakerintentions)withtherejectionofpropositionalism(theviewaccordingtowhichthesemanticcontentofutteredsentencesalwaysreachesthelevelofaproposition,i.e.acontentpotentiallyfiguringastheobjectofanattitude).Investigatingthespecificsofdemonstrativeexpressionsasatouchstoneforherminimalistaccount,bydecouplingthenotionofatruth-conditionfromthatofapropositiontheauthormanagestostaywithintheboundsofatruth-conditionalaccount,whiletakingintoaccountthatthereferentsofdemonstrativeexpressionscannotbedeterminedwithoutreferencetospeakerintentions.