LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
DEIXIS AND SPACE
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Social deixis
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Person deixis
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Temporal deixis
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Spatial deixis
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Detailed explanation-1: -Spatial deixis involves the specification of locations relative to points of reference in the speech event. English has a proximal or distal distance from speaker. A third type of deixis is temporal deixis which shows the orientation or position of the referent of actions and events in time.
Detailed explanation-2: -4.Data Analysis There are five types of deixis according to Levinson (1983:68-94), they are : person deixis, place deixis, time deixis, social deixis and Discourse deixis. All the types are found in the chapters in the ten chapters in John’s book, Holy Bible.
Detailed explanation-3: -In linguistics, deixis (/ˈdaɪksɪs/, /ˈdeɪksɪs/) is the use of general words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place, or person in context, e.g., the words tomorrow, there, and they. Words are deictic if their semantic meaning is fixed but their denoted meaning varies depending on time and/or place.