LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
DEIXIS AND SPACE
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Question
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Deictic expressions were all o be found in ____
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Regularity
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Temporal deixis
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Pragmatics wastebasket
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Person deixis
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Every language includes deictic expressions: words or phrases that change what they refer to every time they’re spoken. The meaning of these phrases depends crucially on who speaks them, and when and where.
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