LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY

DEIXIS AND SPACE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
I could be telling you about a girl ‘’She was sitting over there”What role here in the sentence?
A
Temporal deixis
B
Person deixis
C
Spatial deixis
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.

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