LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
DEIXIS AND SPACE
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Question
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The concept of distance already mentioned is clearly relevant to ____, where the relative location of people and things is being indicated.
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Psychological distance
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Temporal deixis
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Person deixis
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Spatial deixis
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -An example would be “here” and “now” in the sentence “You read this here and now”. “Here” is an example of spatial deixis, and “now” is an example of temporal deixis.
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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