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DEIXIS Isabel Ruiz Clemente Describing and Using English

DEIXIS: the act of ‘pointing’ via language.

Example: “You’ll have to bring that back tomorrow, because he isn’t here now.”

WHO is speaking ? about WHOM ? the TIME or PLACE of speaking the GESTURES of the speaker

Example: P: Hello, is Mr. Grant at home now? S: No, he’s on holidays. He isn’t back until (més)

Example: “You’ll have to bring that back tomorrow, because he isn’t here now.” The package (més)

For each CONTEXT the sentence has a different meaning.

Example: “Come and help me, I've been marooned on this island for six months now!”

DEICTIC ELEMENTS: linguistic forms relating the utterance to a particular time, place, speaker, (més)

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