LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
DEIXIS AND SPACE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Temporal Deixis
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Personal Deixis
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Either A or B
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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: -One basic type of temporal deixis is in the choice of verb tense. We can say that the present tense is always the proximal form (e.g. I work here now) and the past tense is the distal form (e.g. I worked there then).
Detailed explanation-3: -Gestural and Symbolic Deixis These are referred to as gestural deixis. Examples include demonstrative pronouns utilized with a selecting gesture, or second or third pronouns used with some physical indication of the referent, as in: This one’s genuine, but this one is a fake. He’s not the Duke, he is.