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In contrast to formal languages such as the language of the predicate calculus, natural languages contain deictic expressions, that is, expressions of the following kind: ‘I, you, this, that, here, there, now, yesterday.’
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© 1996 Pär Segerdahl
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Segerdahl, P. (1996). Language and Context. In: Language Use. Swansea Studies in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375093_2
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