LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
DEIXIS AND SPACE
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Question
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____ the time coinciding with the speaker’s utterance and the time of speaker’s voice being heard.
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The distal expression
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Proximal form
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -According to Levinson (1983:54) “deixis concerns the ways in which language encode or grammaticalize features of the context of utterance or speech event, and thus also concerns ways in which interpretation of utterances depends on the analysis of the context of utterance”.
Detailed explanation-2: -There are three deictic categories identified in the literature. These are: personal deixis ( I, you, we ), spatial deixis (this, that, here, there ), and temporal deixis ( now, today, yesterday ).
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