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1、MeaningwithoutTruthThispageintentionallyleftblankMeaningwithoutTruthStefanoPredelli13GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP,UnitedKingdomOxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford.ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship,andeducationbypublishingworldwid
2、e.OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries#StefanoPredelli2013ThemoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenassertedFirstEditionpublishedin2013Impression:1Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformo
3、rbyanymeans,withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographicsrightsorganization.EnquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe
4、addressaboveYoumustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherformandyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirerBritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationDataDataavailableISBN978–0–19–969563–8PrintedandboundinGreatBritainbyCPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YYToDavidKaplanThispageintentionallyleftblankPreface‘Inthe
5、winterof1995,asIwasconductingmyannualtourthroughthedelightsofDemonstratives,Ipausedatafamiliarfootnote.Itstruckme,forthefirsttime,asintriguing.’Thusbeganmydissertation,writtenatUCLAunderDavidKaplan’ssupervision.Thefootnoteinquestionhadtodowithoperatorsoncharacter,andprovidedtheimpetusformyint
6、erestinlessthanstraightforwardusesofindexicalexpressions.Myruminationsonrecordingdevices,monsters,andotherescapesfromtheGeworfenheitofthehere-and-noweventuallyledmetoextendKaplan’sfootnoteintoawholebook,Contexts(Predelli2005a).Icannowrecyclemylittleinsiderjoke,adaptingittoanotherjunctureinDe
7、monstratives(andAfterthoughts),thistimeacoupleofsentencesdealing1withtheveryaimsandscopeofsemantictheorizing.Whatstruckmeduringmymorerecentannualtours,afewyearsago,hadtodowithKaplan’sdistinctionbetweenveritiesandvagaries—adistinctionIhadalreadybegu
