Similar words: dixie, mix in, nixie, pixie, elixir, fixity, fixing, mixing. Meaning: n. 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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1. I must repeat, then, that deixis is distinguished by its use.
2. Place deixis concerns the encoding of spatial locations relative to the location of the participants in the speech event.
3. In the opening sections, an attempt to define deixis is made and a methodology for analysis for texts in general is proposed.
4. My account of deixis is such that the methodology could be applied to other kinds of discourse, both literary and non-literary.
5. Rauh sees deixis as functioning between the poles of extralinguistic deixis and non-egocentric deixis.
6. Deixis is an important content of pragmatics.
7. Deixis is a universal phenomenon in human languages.
8. Without deixis , it is almost impossible to understand the meaning of any stretch of language.
9. The pragmatic translation of deixis rests on understanding the deictic information in SL.
10. English person deixis consists of the system of English personal pronouns.
11. Third, anti-pre-emptiveness of deixis results from such factors as lack of deictic information, psychological activities of participants in speech event and so on.
12. Modest and honorific is a typical social deixis, which includes modest title , honorific title.
13. Traditional accounts of deixis cannot provide a convincing explanation for this phenomenon of deictic projection.
14. The four types of deixis are used to identify something in the immediate physical context or within the discourse or text.
15. As an important element of pragmatics, deixis plays the role of relating utterance with its context.
16. Deixis is a popular and universal language phenomenon, which reflects the relationship between language and context in the language system.
17. A central question that remains, though, is whether the study of deixis belongs to semantics or to pragmatics.
18. Thus we can see that the discourse of lyric poetry is by no means unusual in its mobilisation of deixis.
19. It is the interrelationship of these points that enables the analysis of deixis in the genre of the lyric poem to proceed.
20. Demonstratives and the definite article are terms whose mobilisation and use would be strongly linked to this kind of deixis.
21. This leaves the possibility open of finding new insights into deixis perse as well as into its behaviour within a particular discourse.
22. My main aims are to demonstrate a possible methodology for such analysis, and to present a coherent theory of deixis.
23. The remarks in this section only sketch out a province for which a proper theory of discourse deixis might provide an account.
24. Based on Chinese language and Chinese culture, we will analyze this kind of deixis in terms of its meaning, existence, judge, function, syntactic and so on, which is very meaningful.
25. The potential function of deictic terms changes with their different references. The meaning of deixis depends, to a large degree,(http://sentencedict.com) on the author's innermost status.
26. It has also illustrated the concrete usage of the deixis, especially the gestural usage, symbolic usage, anaphoric usage and non-anaphoric usage.
27. This paper attempts to explain the use of past tense in the subjunctive clause from the perspective of temporal deixis .
28. By researching the features of Chinese and English person deixis , we could have a clear vision on what are the references in the context.
29. This paper mainly talks about the functional variations of deixis, and attempts to analysis the reasons for their existence and their understanding from the pragmatic perspectives.
30. In this thesis, the analysis of tense as time deixis helps to reveal the context-dependent information under the mess surface.
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