LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY

DEIXIS AND SPACE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ or time deixis, concerns itself with the various times involved in and referred to in an utterance.
A
Personal deixis
B
Spatial deixis
C
Temporal deixis
D
Social deixis
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Temporal deixis, or time deixis, concerns itself with the various times involved in and referred to in an utterance. This includes time adverbs like “now", “then", and “soon", as well as different verbal tenses. A further example is the word tomorrow, which denotes the next consecutive day after any day it is used.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most common kinds of deictic expressions are personal, depending on the identity of the speaker, spatial, which depend on where the speaker is when they say the phrase, and temporal, which depend on the time the speaker says the phrase.

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