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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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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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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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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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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