Deixis And Distance

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Pragmatics: Deixis and Distance By: Hermione Mars

Deixis <ul><li>Definition: </li></ul><ul><li>The word “Deixis” is a technical term (from Greek) for one of the most basic ...

I, you, he, she Here, This, Now that,there, then Typical examples of Deixis

<ul><li>News narratives show many examples of deixis: </li></ul><ul><li>Example 1 - from a CBS Evening News broadcast....

Person Deixis I: the speaker You: the addressee He, she, it : neither speaker, nor addressee Social deixis ( in French, “v...

Example <ul><li>Tom: Hello. Is that the teacher speaking? My little Tom caught cold today and he can’t go to school. He ...

Space/Spatial/Place Deixis: Here / There This / That They indicate distance or proximity from the speaker, Physical...

example <ul><li>Teacher: Tom, where is Mexico? </li></ul><ul><li>Tom: It is on the 11th page of the geographic book, sir! ...

Temporal/Time deixis Now  proximal Then  distal (both past and future) Temporal events that move toward us (into view)...

example <ul><li>Professor: when is your birthday? </li></ul><ul><li>Boy: February 20th </li></ul><ul><li>Professor: which ...

Discourse Deixis : <ul><li>Any expression used to refer to earlier or forthcoming segments of the discourse: in the previo...

Example <ul><li>Teacher: Tom, spell “mouse” </li></ul><ul><li>Tom: M-O-U-S </li></ul><ul><li>Teacher: But what’s the end o...

Social Deixis: <ul><li>Social deixis concerns the aspect of sentences which reflect certain realities of social situation ...

Example <ul><li>As a judge was leaving the bench one day, he slipped, bumped down several steps and landed with some viole...

Deictic center <ul><li>The time of the utterance’s time; the place of the utterance’s place, the person just giving the ut...

Using Deixis <ul><li>Certain words like here, there, this, that, now, then, yesterday as well as most pronouns such I, you...

Using Deixis For example, the sentence, “ you’ll have to bring that back tomorrow, because they aren’t here”, out of the c...

Using Deixis <ul><li>All these expressions have to be interpreted in terms of what person, place or time the speaker has i...

Intriguing question <ul><li>Deictic expressions are in the pragmatics wastebasket </li></ul><ul><li>Why? </li></ul><ul><li...

The End <ul><li>Thank You! </li></ul>

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