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THE CONCEPT OF DEIXIS AND PRAGMATIC PROPERTIES OF DISCOURSE DEIXIS
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WORD ART, 2020Pragmatics is the most important branch of linguistics that studies how and when language is used. The deixis phenomenon is directly related to pragmatics, which directly involves the connection between the structure and context of language. Deixis is therefore a key element of pragmatics. This article is devoted to the study of the role of
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2016
Abstract The main goal of this chapter is critically to address from a comparative perspective some of the most important issues in Romance deixis, covering the restructuring of Latin demonstrative and personal-spatial systems into the various Romance varieties; the diachronic and synchronic distributions, formal developments and ...
Ledgeway, Adam, Smith, John Charles
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Abstract The main goal of this chapter is critically to address from a comparative perspective some of the most important issues in Romance deixis, covering the restructuring of Latin demonstrative and personal-spatial systems into the various Romance varieties; the diachronic and synchronic distributions, formal developments and ...
Ledgeway, Adam, Smith, John Charles
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Discourse Deixis and Situational Deixis in Sinhala
1998Abstract Sinhala has a four-member set of determiners that show deictic properties. These are given in table 8-1 along with a rough indication of their “core” meanings and the designations given to them in earlier work (Gair 1970: 31 ff).
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Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019
When engaged in communication, people often rely on pointing gestures to refer to out-of-reach content. However, observers frequently misinterpret the target of a pointing gesture. Previous research suggests that to perform a pointing gesture, people place the index finger on or close to a line connecting the eye to the referent, while observers ...
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When engaged in communication, people often rely on pointing gestures to refer to out-of-reach content. However, observers frequently misinterpret the target of a pointing gesture. Previous research suggests that to perform a pointing gesture, people place the index finger on or close to a line connecting the eye to the referent, while observers ...
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Deixis and the Interactional Foundations of Reference
2016Abstract Deictic expressions such as here–there, this–that, now–then, I–you make interpretable reference only by virtue of an indexical connection to some aspect of the things, people, places, and times that constitute the speech event. For instance, this refers by identifying some enumerable thing proximate to the speaker. Now indicates
Sidnell, J., Enfield, N.
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2016
This chapter concludes the introduction of Critical Stylistics and its ten textual–conceptual functions by introducing the construction of a time–space envelope through deixis, the coordinates to anchor a text in relation to time, space and society. In the second part, an introduction to cognitive metaphor theory based on the two-domain approach is ...
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This chapter concludes the introduction of Critical Stylistics and its ten textual–conceptual functions by introducing the construction of a time–space envelope through deixis, the coordinates to anchor a text in relation to time, space and society. In the second part, an introduction to cognitive metaphor theory based on the two-domain approach is ...
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Person deixis and space deixis in Japanese and Chinese
2020This paper analyzes the way information provided by the French text in the domain of person deixis is expressed in Chinese and/or Japanese through morphemes related to spatial deixis, (deictic directional). After describing cases where the addition of a deictic directional is expected in both languages, e.g.
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