anthropology, deixis is seen as the same as, or a subclass of, indexicality. The term's origin is Ancient Greek: δεῖξις, romanized: deixis, lit. 'display...
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Malagasy language (section Deixis)
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...
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Demonstrative (section Discourse deixis)
be understood without context. Demonstratives are often used in spatial deixis (where the speaker or sometimes the listener is to provide context), but...
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Grammatical person (redirect from Person deixis)
In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction...
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Deictic field and narration (section Deixis)
The term "deixis" refers to the ways in which language encodes contextual information into its grammatical system. More broadly, deixis refers to the...
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elaborate systems of "social deixis", or systems of signalling social distance through linguistic means. In English, social deixis is shown mostly through...
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Nuxalk language (section Deixis)
visitor is Canadian' and 'the visitor is a Canadian' respectively. The deixis system has a proximal/medial/distal and a non-demonstrative/demonstrative...
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the key to understanding deixis, traditionally a difficult problem for semantic theory. In linguistic anthropology, deixis is defined as referential...
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Tolomako language (section Deixis)
of not articulating high vowels after nasals. There are three degrees of deixis, here/this, there/that, yonder/yon. Tolomako has inalienably possessed nouns...
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Tifal language (section Deixis)
Tifal is an Ok language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Tifal (Tifalmin), Urap (Urapmin) and Atbal (Atbalmin). The Tifal language is bounded by...
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Seneca language (section Deixis)
Seneca (/ˈsɛnəkə/; in Seneca, Onöndowaʼga꞉ʼ Gawë꞉noʼ, or Onötowáʼka꞉) is the language of the Seneca people, one of the Six Nations of the Hodinöhsö꞉niʼ...
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tables show the Akkadian demonstrative pronouns according to near and far deixis: Relative pronouns in Akkadian are shown in the following table: Unlike...
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Euro English (section Deixis)
Euro English, Euro-English or European English, less commonly known as EU English, Continental English and EU Speak, is a group of dialects of the English...
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(1982). "Deixis and subjectivity: Loquor, ergo sum?". In Jarvella, Rovert J.; Klein, Wolfgang (eds.). Speech, place, and action: Studies in deixis and related...
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number of the subject by a prefixal concordpronoun on the verb. Locative deixis pays careful attention to the relative position (both horizontal and vertical)...
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Duke language (section Deixis)
addition to the personal deixis (pronoun and possessive) series above, Nduke has classes of words for spatial and time deixis. Sources for documentation...
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American Sign Language grammar (section Deixis)
The grammar of American Sign Language (ASL) has rules just like any other sign language or spoken language. ASL grammar studies date back to William Stokoe...
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Atakapa language (section Deixis)
Atakapa (/əˈtækəpə, -pɑː/, natively Yukhiti) is an extinct language isolate native to southwestern Louisiana and nearby coastal eastern Texas. It was spoken...
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they did. Gregson's most recent novel, After Silence, was published by Deixis Press in August 2022. Set during the Siege of Leningrad, the story focuses...
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writing). ISBN 978-0-415-18589-9. Kupreyev, Maxim N. (2022) [copyright: 2023]. Deixis in Egyptian: The Close, the Distant, and the Known. Brill. p. 3. "What Is...
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indefinite pronouns are: The demonstratives distinguish three degrees of deixis (proximate, distal, remote) and simple ('this', 'that', etc.) and particular...
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aúta-lo i-òro auta-in 3SG.RL-go.inland 'He went in auta direction' Spatial deixis describes how speakers can 'point out' the location of an object in relationship...
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and to make new ones like them." — Meditations. iv. 36. – Marcus Aurelius Deixis Extrospection Introspection List of cognitive biases Metaphysics of presence...
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Jeju language (section Pronouns and deixis)
Jeju (Jeju: 제줏말; Jeju RR: Jejun-mal, or Korean: 제주어; RR: Jeju-eo, or 제주말; Jeju-mal), often called Jejueo or Jejuan in English-language scholarship, is...
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Central Alaskan Yupʼik (section Spatial deixis)
as "the teachers like the children". Yup'ik has a rich system of spatial deixis[broken anchor]. That is, many of the spatial properties of things and events...
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English pronouns (section Deixis)
The English pronouns form a relatively small category of words in Modern English whose primary semantic function is that of a pro-form for a noun phrase...
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grammar of whatever language. Language users have high-level reference (or deixis), the ability to refer to things or states of being that are not in the...
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he is known for his organon model of communication and his treatment of deixis as a linguistic phenomenon. He was the dissertation advisor of Karl Popper...
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Buru language (section Spatial and temporal deixis)
Buru or Buruese (Buru: li fuk Buru) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of the Central Maluku branch. In 1991 it was spoken by approximately 45,000 Buru people...
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(linguistics) – Use of an expression whose interpretation depends on context Deixis – Words requiring context to understand their meaning Pro-drop language –...
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