1. Task 1: Underline the deictic expressions, and state the type of deixis in each
case (person, spatial, temporal, discourse, social). In certain cases, deixis
belongs to more than one type
-This ring costs sixty euros.
-I am looking at those clouds over there.
-My friend has gone back to Paris.
-You showed me that picture last week.
-Sorry, sir. We haven’t got any more tickets.
-She has finished Chapter 3.
-You are my best friend here.
-Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
-Hey you, your seat is right over there!
-My son wrote two novels here two years ago.
-Your daughter found page 33 interesting.
-Do you know whose purse this is?
-Ladies and gentlemen, now I will talk about foreign investments in China.
- A: I’m sorry I stepped on your toe!
B: It’s all right, madam.
Task 2: Underline the deictic expressions in this song chorus, and state the
kind of deixis in each case (person, spatial, temporal, discourse)
Right here, right now
I’m lookin’ at you
And my heart loves the view
Cause you mean everything
Right here, I promise you somehow
That tomorrow can wait some other day to be
But right now there’s you and me
(Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron)
Task 3: Read the following sentences and decide whether the speaker gives
any indication of his/her location in space or time, and state this indication.
Underline the expression or expressions by which this indication is given (not
all deictic expressions!)
a) 1989 will be a good year for you.
b) Sally is going back to London next summer.
c) I enjoy living in Madrid because the weather is lovely here.
Explain why, in sentence c, the expression concerned is anaphoric as well as
deictic.
