deictic
- noun
- /ˈdaɪktɪk/
- Specialized
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deíctico
- A deictic expression helps clarify who is being referred to in a conversation, such as using 'you' for the listener.
- deictic here
Examples
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One of the important fields of power over which disputes, debates, and social deictics take place is knowledge (see, for example, Murphy 1980); the discourse of knowledge and what kind of agency and where it can be exercised is central to all the articles here in Part 1 and in Part 2.
Academic text (2000) -
Within that class of expressions called deictics, furthermore, language theorists have identified what appear to be at least five different kinds, or rather dimensions, of deixis.
Academic text (1994) -
Characters will be tracked down and identified by the analysis of pronouns, deictics, noun phrases, and their relations of conference.
Academic text (1992) -
ON DEICTIC SYSTEMS OF A HIGHER ORDER
Academic text (1994) -
There are long passages in which Quentin takes his father's point of view and uses the deictics that his father would use: to refer to Father and you to refer to himself.
Academic text (1990) -
How is memory, and particularly "memory in the postcolony" (cf. Werbner 1998), part of the constitution of generational consciousness, ideas of youth, and social deictics?
Academic text (2000) -
E. Benveniste has shown that deictics constitute an irruption of discourse within language, since their very meaning, even though it depends on language, can only be defined by allusion to their use (252).
Academic text (1994) -
In linguistics, terms like 'here' and 'now' are considered deictics because their meanings change based on context.
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Understanding deictics is essential for analyzing how context influences meaning in language.
Synonyms
A word that shows person, place and time compared to the speaker or listener
Compounds
- Specialized
A word that shows person, place and time compared to the speaker or listener
How Context-Dependent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Deictic comes from the Greek root deik-, which means 'to show' or 'to point'. So a deictic is a 'pointing' word like 'here', 'that', or 'now' that only gets its full meaning from the speaker's time and place.