LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
DEIXIS AND SPACE
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Question
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“He stared at her for a long time and then turned to the right and continued driving""The right” refers to?
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Textual deixis
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Spatial deixis
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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).
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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