- Look up
deixis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics,
deixis (/ˈdaɪksɪs/, /ˈdeɪksɪs/) is the use of
words or
phrases to
refer to a particular...
- be
understood without context.
Demonstratives are
often used in
spatial deixis (where the
speaker or
sometimes the
listener is to
provide context), but...
- The term "
deixis"
refers to the ways in
which language encodes contextual information into its
grammatical system. More broadly,
deixis refers to the...
- In linguistics,
grammatical person is the
grammatical distinction between deictic references to parti****nt(s) in an event; typically, the distinction...
- are
topical to the conversation. Notes:
Diacritics in
deixis are not
mandatory in Malagasy.
Deixis marked by a * are
rarely used.
Malagasy shares much of...
-
elaborate systems of "social
deixis", or
systems of
signalling social distance through linguistic means. In English,
social deixis is
shown mostly through...
- Jeju (Jeju: 제줏말; Jeju RR: Jejunmal, or Korean: 제주어; RR: Jejueo, or 제주말; Jejumal),
often called Jejueo or
Jejuan in English-language scholarship, is a Koreanic...
-
visitor is Canadian' and 'the
visitor is a Canadian' respectively. The
deixis system has a proximal/medial/distal and a non-demonstrative/demonstrative...
- the key to
understanding deixis,
traditionally a
difficult problem for
semantic theory. In
linguistic anthropology,
deixis is
defined as referential...
- (1982). "
Deixis and subjectivity: Loquor, ergo sum?". In Jarvella,
Rovert J.; Klein,
Wolfgang (eds.). Speech, place, and action:
Studies in
deixis and related...
