Deictic words are words that derive part of their meaning from the context in which they are used, such as who is speaking, who is being addressed, or when and where an utterance is made. There are three main types of deictic words: personal deixis which indicate speakers and addressees using pronouns like I, you, she; spatial deixis which indicate locations using words like here, there, this, that; and temporal deixis which indicate times using words like now, then, yesterday, tomorrow. Deictic words are context-dependent and help connect language to real situations.

1. DEIXIS

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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

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