LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
DEIXIS AND SPACE
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Question
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Can you point out which words are deictic in this sentense:‘’I was there yesterday”
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Personal, spatial, temporal
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Personal, place, temporal
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Personal, place, time
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A&B
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In English, people can find some examples of temporal deixis. It can be found in the use of time signal, such as: now, soon, recently, then, yesterday, this year. Besides, it is usually found in the use of tenses.
Detailed explanation-2: -Temporal deixis is another category of deictic expressions. It refers to an event of an utterance, which takes place any time relative to the speaking time and is, therefore, represented by tense, time adverbials and sometimes by spatial prepositions such as in the evening, at midnight, on time .
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