deixis

NOUN
  1. the function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communication whose interpretation depends on knowledge of the context in which the communication occurs
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How To Use deixis In A Sentence

  • The remarks in this section only sketch out a province for which a proper theory of discourse deixis might provide an account.
  • The remarks in this section only sketch out a province for which a proper theory of discourse deixis might provide an account.
  • This study of the role of deixis and information packaging in discourse is based on an analysis of several corpora of Russian spoken and written texts.
  • This question is closely related to that of the temporal deixis of PhilGons.com
  • That is because the more excellent of demonstrations is one that yields certainty and it is the inference from the cause to the effect; however, its opposite which is the inference from the effect to the cause may yield certainty and that is if the thing sought has a cause that can only be discerned through it as has been explained in apodeixis. Mulla Sadra
  • There is another linguistic category related to the notion of deixis: namely, aspect.
  • Knowledge develops and is corroborated through the Aristotelian science of demonstration (apodeixis). Mulla Sadra
  • The remarks in this section only sketch out a province for which a proper theory of discourse deixis might provide an account.
  • The difference between Doggerel and Motherese is clearest when it comes to deixis, which is the technical name for sentences that point out specific bits of information, such as “This is a ball” or “That cup is red.” How to Speak Dog
  • The phenomenon of deixis has been taken to be the clearest single example of language's embeddedness in context.
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