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Literary dialect as social deixis

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 2020
The representation of non-standard and regional accent and dialect in literary fiction has been framed mainly sociolinguistically and treated as an index of authenticity, within an account of characterisation. The reader’s attitude to such speakers in literary fiction is manipulated narratorially and authorially.
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Relational social deixis and the linguistic construction of identity

International Journal of Multilingualism, 2009
Abstract This study examines language attitudes, member categorisation and social distinctions among Greek-Cypriot tertiary education students in Cyprus. Specifically, focus is placed on the use of deictics by participants to examine attitudes and behaviour as regards use and variation in language.
Andreas Papapavlou, Andry Sophocleous
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The social deixis of gender boundaries

Journal of Language and Discrimination, 2020
This article studies aspects of the multi-layered role of language in establishing and maintaining a social order based on gender. Gendered person appellations are traditionally seen as person reference, an interpretation loaded with essentialist views of gender that hardly comply with current gender theories.
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AN ANALYSIS OF DEIXIS IN CAMEROON SOCIAL MEDIA

International Journal of Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Culture, 2023
This contribution focuses on the study of deictic expressions in Cameroon Social Media. It aims to find out the various types of deixis guided by Levinson’s (1983) theory of deixis composed of five types namely personal, temporal, spatial, social and discourse deixis.
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Social deixis in motion

2015
The address term COMRADE in the 20th century Russian and Mandarin Chinese presents an attempt to neutralize and compress the category of formal address by collapsing in a single lexeme the dimensions of power, social distance, age, and gender differentials.
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SOCIAL DEIXIS AMONG INDIAN TRANSGENDERS IN MALAYSIA

Muallim Journal of Social Science and Humanities
This study looks into the social deixis of six Indian transgenders who live in northern regions of Malaysia. The purpose of this study is to discover how social deixis (pronouns, names, and kinship relationships) are used by Indian transgenders and to determine the influence of social deixis on in-group and out-group formation among Indian transgenders.
SHUHASYINI BALAN, PARVATHI WAJINDRAM, RAJANTHERAN MUNIANDY   +2 more
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Social condition deixis and its expression in uzbek language

ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2020
As it is known, the social status of occupation in the communication is determined, compared to the participants-curry, relationship status, position and role in the family. Speech communication is an important tool for providing information about the social status of the participants.
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Social deixis in the translation of dramatic discourse

Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation, 1999
Abstract Pronominal modes of address are an instance of the kind of structural incompatibility between languages which presents a considerable challenge to the translator. Indeed, they have been described as an "impossibility of translation" (Lyons). The structural contrast between English and most other European languages with regard to this feature
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The Analysis of Social Deixis in A Night in Khanzadʼs Life

Journal of University of Raparin, 2019
 Abstract        Pragmatics is branch of linguistics that studies language in context, therefore, there should be a relation between language and context that surrounds the utterance. One of the manifestations of this relation is social deixis. Social deixis is the linguistic expressions that show the status of the speaker, the addressee, or a ...
Suhayla Hameed Majeed, Diman Ezzadin Khidhir   +1 more
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Aspects of person, social and spatial deixis in Zulu

South African Journal of Linguistics, 1991
In hierdie artikel word die realisering van deiktiese terme in Zulu ondersoek met klem op aspekte van persoonsdeiksis, ruimtelike deiksis en sosiale deiksis. 'n Onderskeid word getref tussen die nie-deiktiese, anaforiese, gebaar-deiktiese en sim bolies-deiktiese gebruik van deiktiese terme.
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