LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
DEIXIS AND SPACE
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Deixis
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Indexicals
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Pragmatics
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Deixis • Deixis means “pointing via language”. Any linguistic form used to do this “pointing” is called a deictic expression.
Detailed explanation-2: -An example would be “here” and “now” in the sentence “You read this here and now”. “Here” is an example of spatial deixis, and “now” is an example of temporal deixis.
Detailed explanation-3: -Deixis can be of time (then, now, when, soon, yesterday, next year), place (here, this, that, those over there, come, go) and, less frequently, quantity (enough, more, all). The time is now 08.49. 59. And now, it is 08.50.
Detailed explanation-4: -The term deixis refers to a class of linguistic expressions that are used to indicate elements of the situational context, including the speech participants, the time and location of the current speech event (Lyons 1977), In English, there are many linguistic expressions that are usually called as deictics.