indexical

Created: June 16, 2021 12:18 PM
Forest status: #soil
Last Edited: 2022-12-31
Topics: Literary devices

Summary

Indexicals are words with a stable meaning but indexed to the context in which they are used. This is just a fancy way of saying that “you” always refers to whomever I am addressing, but it can refer to different people

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