a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs
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deictic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deictic word |
| Type of | word |
deictic:: | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Derivation | deixis |
deictic pronouns.
Examples of deictic
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The compound demonstratives are formed by added a deictic element to an article.
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For example, the deictic singular article i triggers soft mutation in Noldorin.
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For examples, consider the traditional deictic categories of person, place, and time.
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Deictic gestures are thus milestones in the development of human speech.
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Now, here, and I are also typical examples of deictic terms, as well as examples of indexical terms.
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Deictic class marking in Tibetan and Burmese.
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In a sense, the viewer becomes the deictic audience, as the performer looks directly into the camera and performs to it.
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Deictic gestures thus represent an extremely rare form of communication evolutionarily and have been suggested as confined to primates only.
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A third component to this approach is new literacies are deictic-that is, they change regularly as new technology emerges and older technologies fade away.
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- Relating to or characteristic of a word whose reference depends on the circumstances of its use; "deictic pronouns"
- A word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs; "words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message"- R.Rommetveit
- In linguistics, deixis refers to the phenomenon wherein understanding the meaning of certain words and phrases in an utterance requires contextual information. Words are deictic if their semantic meaning is fixed but their denotational meaning varies depending on time and/or place. ...
- Such a word (such as I or here); Of or pertaining to deixis; to a word whose meaning is dependent on context
- (deixis) A reference within a sentence that relies on the context being known to interpret correctly
- (DEIXIS) Verbal pointing. Deictic words or expressions include personal or possessive pronouns ("I" / "you" / "he" / "mine" / "yours") and adjectives ("my" / "your"), demonstrative pronouns and adjectives ("this"/"that"), articles ("the" / "a"), and [spatial/temporal] adverbs ("here" / "now").
- (deixis) POINT (2h)alt.POINT-TO"each".
- (deixis) Reference to the personal, temporal or locational characteristics of a situation. Pronouns, articles and other determiners are deictic elements.
- (deixis) The reference system of a language. By references we mean the words used to refer to objects, people and other things situated in different locations, times, contexts within the sentence, etc. These words are called deictics or demonstratives. ...
