Published Online: Dec 31, 2018
Page range: 2 - 25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2004-0001
© 2019 Stefano Predelli, published by Sciendo
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In this essay I propose a semantic analysis of impersonal uses of ‘you’, and related uses of other indexical expressions. The framework I employ is Kaplan’s classic analysis of indexical languages, enriched with independently motivated hypotheses about the identification of the semantically relevant context, and about the employment of generic expressions.