DEIXIS AND DISTANCE

DEIXIS AND DISTANCE

1. Linguistic pointing

   • Used as a way of referring
     • Speaker's context
       • Deictic centre
         • Proximal terms
         • Distal terms
       • Person deixis (Me, you)
         • Social deixis
           • T/V french distinctions
             • Relationships
             • Social status
         • Three part division
           • First person
           • Second person
           • Third person
       • Spatial deixis (Here, there)
         • Deictic projection
           • Psychological distance
       • Temporal deixis (Now, then)
         • Verb tense choice
     • REFERENCE AND INFERENCE
       • A social act
         • Speaker
           • Reference
             • Anaphoric reference
               • Anaphor
                 • Subsequent reference to already introduced referents
                   • Antecedent + anaphor
               • Cataphora
                 • Anaphor + antecedent
               • Ellipsis
                 • Ausence of co-text
         • Hearer
           • Inference
             • Based on contex and general knowledge
             • Co-text
       • Referring expressions
         • Phrases
         • Pronouns
         • Referential use
           • Factual properties
         • Atributive use
           • Descriptive properties
             • Speaker's knowledge