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DESCRIBING AND USING ENGLISH

DESCRIBING AND USING ENGLISH. UNIT 3 DEIXIS. Student: Paula Boanda English Studies. DEIXIS. Is the part of pragmatics linked to the words. It functions like the context. An important element in deixis is the reference  is the point we use as a reflection in a utterance. DEIXIS.

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DESCRIBING AND USING ENGLISH

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  1. DESCRIBING AND USING ENGLISH UNIT 3 DEIXIS Student: Paula Boanda English Studies

  2. DEIXIS • Is the part of pragmatics linked to the words. • It functions like the context. • An important element in deixis is the reference  is the point we use as a reflection in a utterance.

  3. DEIXIS • Deictic elements: personal pronouns, possessives, demonstratives and temporal and locative adverbs. • Deictic usage: Do you want some cake ? • Non-deictic usage: That’s it. I am out of here.

  4. DEIXIS • Deictic: • Gestural usage: “youhave to come with me over there” needs physical support. • Symbolic usage: “that dog of yours is really cute”  needs information about the addressee. • Non-deictic: • Anaphora: used like a reference for its antecedent .

  5. DEIXIS

  6. DEIXIS • The person deixis is constituted by personal pronouns and the possessives

  7. DEIXIS • Ambiguities in the person deixis: • “we” “We decided to get married.”  includes the speaker and an over hearer  “Can we meet at your place, Mike?” includes the speaker and the addressee • “you” which can refer to more than one addressee

  8. DEIXIS • Place deixis includes mainly demonstratives: this, that, these, those, here, there. • we use also verbs which encode aspects of location or directionality: come, go, bring, and take. • Proximity: this, thesehere. • Distance: that, those, there.

  9. DEIXIS • Time deixis is pointing at the temporal reference from the utterance. • Includes: • adverbs or adverbial expressions like now, then, ago, later, soon, before, today, tomorrow, yesterday etc. • adjectives like next and last

  10. DEIXIS THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

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