Friday, December 1, 2017

Deixis

Deixis is reference by means of an expression whose interpretation is relative to the (usually) extralinguistic context of the utterance, such as :
  • who is speaking
  • the time or place of speaking
  • the gestures of the speaker, or
  • the current location in the discourse.
Here are examples of deictic expressions:
I
You
Now
There
That
The following
Tenses

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