LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
DEIXIS AND SPACE
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Question
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Spatial Deixis
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Temporal Deixis
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Person Deixis
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Personal deixis, or person deixis, concerns itself with the grammatical persons involved in an utterance: (1) those directly involved (e.g. the speaker, the addressee), (2) those not directly involved (e.g. those who hear the utterance but who are not being directly addressed), and (3) those mentioned in the utterance.
Detailed explanation-2: -Third person deixis is a deictic reference to a referent(s) not identified as the speaker or addressee and usually imply to the gender that the utterance refers to, for example: he, she, they, him, himself, her, herself.
Detailed explanation-3: -Place deixis is also called as spatial deixis and describes where the relative location of people and objects are being indicated (Giergji, 2015: 137f.). Demonstrative adverbs for place deixis are here, this, these, that, those, there. There is a gestural use for spatial deixis as well as a non-gestural use.