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HOW DEMONSTRATIVE PICTORIAL REFERENCE GROUNDS CONTEXTUALISM
Author(s) -
VOLTOLINI ALBERTO
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2009.01347.x
Subject(s) - demonstrative , contextualism , lopes , pragmatics , epistemology , context (archaeology) , argument (complex analysis) , semantics (computer science) , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , history , physics , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , quantum mechanics , interpretation (philosophy) , programming language
In a very recent paper (forthcoming), Dominic McIver Lopes has claimed that pictures perceptually ground demonstrative reference to depicted objects. If as I think Lopes is right, this has important consequences for the debate on the semantics/pragmatics divide. For one can exploit Lopes' claim in order to provide one more argument in favour of the well‐known contextualist thesis that wide context has not only both a pre‐ and a post‐semantic role, but also a semantic role – to put it in Perry's (1997) terms.