Kinds of deixis

 

 Deixis is a linguistic term that refers to the use of general words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place, or person in context. Deictic expressions are words or phrases that change what they refer to every time they are spoken, and their meaning depends on who speaks them, when, and where. There are different types of deixis, including:

• Person deixis: This refers to the use of expressions that indicate the speaker, the listener, or other people involved in the discourse. Examples of person deixis include pronouns such as "I," "you," and "we"
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• Spatial deixis: This refers to the use of expressions that indicate the location of the speaker or the listener. Examples of spatial deixis include words such as "here," "there," "this," and "that"
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• Temporal deixis: This refers to the use of expressions that indicate the time of the utterance or the time of an event. Examples of temporal deixis include words such as "now," "then," "today," and "yesterday"
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• Social deixis: This refers to the use of expressions that encode social distinctions relative to participant roles, particularly aspects of the social relationship holding between speaker and addressee(s) or speaker and some referents
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• Discourse deixis: This refers to the use of expressions within an utterance to refer to parts of the discourse that contain the utterance, including the utterance itself
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In addition to these traditional categories of deixis, there are other types of deixis that are similarly pervasive in language use, such as proximal deixis and distal deixis

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. Proximal deixis involves expressions that indicate proximity to the speaker, while distal deixis involves expressions that indicate distance from the speaker

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