LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
DEIXIS AND SPACE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Personal Deixis
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Temporal Deixis
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The distal forms of temporal deixis are used to communicate not only distance from current time but also distance from current reality or facts.
Detailed explanation-3: -Quick Reference A term used in linguistics to denote those aspects of an utterance that refer to and depend upon the situation in which the utterance is made. Deictic words indicate the situational ‘co-ordinates’ of person (I/you, us/them), place (here/there, this/that), and time (now/then, yesterday/today).