ADJECTIVE
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relating to or characteristic of a word whose reference depends on the circumstances of its use
deictic pronouns
NOUN
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a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs
words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message
How To Use deictic In A Sentence
- The traditional approach to this difficulty is to dismiss epideictic oratory as irrelevant and gratuitous display.
- He means Goethe, not the preludic and breath-born (e) launch of Wordsworth's "Oh there is a blessing in this gentle breeze," where the deictic "this" serves almost to demonstrate the poem's own aspirant impetus. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
- In completing my own offering on scepticism as a rhetorical-poetical "war of ideas," I turn to the close grappling between Byron and Hemans over the enthymeme, or rhetorical syllogism, which like the epideictic is a legacy of the classical Sophism. [ 'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_
- Tony Blair's epideictic performance at the Labour Party conference last year won admiration even from his foes, but by and large the digital age is cool to rhetoric and, as the enthronement of the blogger suggests, prizes incoherent impulse over the Ciceronian arts of the exordium and the peroration. First Post Says Blair to Resign on May 9th
- Strange, I've posted exactly about this pre-Etruscan *i- deictic and its relationship to animacy, ergativity, and PIE *i- before online somewhere Yahoogroups like Cybalist perhaps? Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/
- Egocentricity is a basic feature of deixis, but deictic projection exists in practical usage of deixis.
- Additionally, the encomia inscribed in the Urbino portraits provided exemplary ingredients for epideictic oration. 48 19 Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
- : cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous Club Troppo
- In the case of ellipsis and anaphoric (and cataphoric) pronouns the designation is determined, or at least constrained, by the linguistic context of the utterance, while the designation of deictic demonstratives is fixed by contextual extralinguistic facts. Pragmatics
- In acts of deictic reference, speakers integrate schematic with local knowledge.
