@article{Eckardt_2020, title={On speakers in narrative fiction}, volume={24}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/860}, DOI={10.18148/sub/2020.v24i1.860}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>The paper investigates aspects of the contribution of indexicals to sentence meaning when the context, specifically the speaker, is unknown. One typical instance is the interpretation of the first person pronoun <em>I</em> in anonymous messages, another case are first and second person indexicals in narrative fiction. Whereas the speaker of an anonymous message can be found out, first speaker protagonists in fiction are <em>a priori</em> elusive. The paper argues that the meaning of indexicals in fiction and in anonymous utterances should be captured by forming the union over possible utterance contexts. It defines the <em>subjective meaning for the hearer/reader</em> as an appropriate level of semantic representation.</p> </div> </div> </div>}, number={1}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Eckardt, Regine}, year={2020}, month={Sep.}, pages={179–192} }