3. I do, too
I like Studying
Linguistics
Deictic Word
4. Definition
• Deictic Word : one which takes some
element of its meaning from the
situation ( the speaker, the
addressee, the time and the place) of
the utterance in which it is used.
• The general phenomenon of its
occurrence is called Deixis
5. Some Types of Deixis
1. Personal deixis:
· First person (Speaker: I, we, they)
· Second person (hearer: you, he, she, it)
Eg :
• I am going to the movies.
• Would you like to have dinner?
• She wants to get the best score in the final
exam.
6. 2. Spatial deixis:
– Determiners: this/that
– Verbs specifying motion toward/away from
speaker: come, go, etc.
• Go to the school
(the speaker is not at school)
– Adverbs (intransitive prepositions):
here/there
7. If Riyanti is preparing to travel to Paris
city, her mother says:
If a visitor coming back from Hawai says:
“You should bring warm
clothes, the weather is
cold there”
“I took many beautiful
places there.”
Deictic Word
8. 3. Temporal deixis:
– Adverbs: now/then; this year/that year; at
this/that point; yesterday; two days ago; last
week.
– Tense: present tense (proximal) : Now
– and both past and future tense (distal) :
Tomorrow, Then.
• Eg:
“Tomorrow is Sunday”
"I saw him last week"
9. Can you point out which words are
deictic?
“I was there yesterday”
“I was there yesterday”
Personal Spatial Temporal