ABSTRACT
Recent work in semantics and pragmatics posits a range of enrichment processes affecting the interpretation of virtually all utterances. Enrichment has been one of the most contentious issues in semantics and pragmatics for past decade, with many objecting to idea that pragmatic processes have a large role in deriving the explicit content. Certain theorists, while sharing the view of advocates of enrichment that explicit content corresponds to the utterance's intuitive truth-conditional content, deny that free pragmatic processes contribute to this level of content. Assignment of values to indexicals is obligatory, so, if pragmatic process appears obligatory, it is plausible that it is indeed mandated by the presence of an indexical – a covert one – in the sentence uttered. The chapter concludes that while there may be a limited amount of indexicality, the indexicalists' strategy looks highly unlikely to cover the full range of cases, from the provision of unarticulated constituents through ad hoc concept construction to predicate transfer.
