All’incrocio tra semantica e pragmatica (parte 1): le espressioni deittiche da Peirce a Reichenbach

The objective of this work divided in two parts is to review, in the most objective way and in accordance to the chronological order, different approches to the problematical question of the deicitc expressions, theories sometimes divergent, other times convergent between themselves and in relation to the approach inspired by the results of Bar-Hillel’s, Kaplan’s, Perry’s and Kleiber’s theoretical research, and announced in expressis verbis in the first part of this contribution’s title. The tentative to treat the deictic expressions as units which belong at the same time to the semantics’ and the pragmatics’ domain can be discreetly observed already in the Bühler’s (indexicals as signals and symbols) and Burks’ (deictics as indexical symbols) philosophical and semiotic thought, but also in the reductionist token-reflexivity theory of Reichenbach (division type / token). The results of Peirce’s and Russell’s research are also relevant, because, being diametrically opposed respect to the approaches mentioned above, they inspired, according to the principle of contradiction, the philosophical and linguistic theories, to which methodologies we explicitly refer.