 Narrow versus broad  Narrow context is usually understood as the list of parameters for basic indexicals, parameters that correspond to basic facts about the utterance. Speaker, place and time are on almost everyone’s list, as required for the interpretation of ‘I,’ ‘here,’ ‘now’ and tense. Kaplan adds the possible world, for the interpretation of ‘actual.’ Arguably, every utterance occurs in a world, at a time, in a place, and with a speaker. 