3.1 Personal Pronouns
3.1.1
Interpretation of Personal Pronouns
(a) To call oneself "James Bond" is
appropirate only if one is James Bond (and not Ludmila Veselovská.
(b) To call oneself "I" is always
correct, no matter whether one is James Bond or Ludmila Veselovská.
In
(a) is true no matter who says so only when James Bond actually did so. (b) is
true if the person, who pronounces it, did so. (a) James Bond was flying to
Hawaii. (b) I was flying to Hawaii.
Contrary to referrential Nouns,
Pronouns do not have independent referrence. Their semantic
interpretation can be defined only in the terms of discourse,
i.e. ccording to the conditions and circumstances of the specific speech act.
(a) this and that [±PROXIMATE]
(b) here and there
(c) now and then
(d) Give me that.
(e) This one here is better than that one there.
(f) I am reading this book here and now, not that
one.