the function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communication whose interpretation depends on knowledge of the context in which the communication occurs
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deixis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | semantics |
| Derivation | deictic |
Examples of deixis
deixis
There are three noun classes, two levels of deixis, and a possession and syntactic function.
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This is similar to other forms of deixis such as this and that.
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In the past, deixis was associated specifically with spatio-temporal reference, while indexicality was used more broadly.
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Deixis in an emerging sign language.
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One important origin for this approach is Roman Jakobson in his studies of deixis and the poetic function in language, but the work of Mikhail Bakhtin on carnival has also been important.
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Deixis is taken as the rhetoric of the narrator, indicating the presence of the speaker in a discourse, a bodily or physical aspect as well as an explicit temporal dimension.
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Indexicality is closely related to deixis, which denotes a behavior or an utterance whose meaning varies according to certain features of the context in which it is uttered.
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- The function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communication whose interpretation depends on knowledge of the context in which the communication occurs
- 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. ...
- A reference within a sentence that relies on the context being known to interpret correctly
- The "pointing out" and "pointing at" function of language, which operates within the two dimensions that frame human cognition: time and space, and thus includes time and place deixis along with personal deixis. Three fundamental types of deixis are:
- 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. ...
- 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").
- Reference to the personal, temporal or locational characteristics of a situation. Pronouns, articles and other determiners are deictic elements.
- POINT (2h)alt.POINT-TO"each".
