deixis in English
noun
1
the function or use of deictic words, forms, or expressions.
This study of the role of deixis and information packaging in discourse is based on an analysis of several corpora of Russian spoken and written texts.
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1. Based on the theories of Deixis and Cohesion, this dissertation reclassifies Chinese demonstrative pronouns this and that.
2. 12 Thus we can see that the discourse of lyric poetry is by no means unusual in its mobilisation of deixis.
3. 4 Demonstratives and the definite article are terms whose mobilisation and use would be strongly linked to this kind of deixis.
4. 14 It has also illustrated the concrete usage of the deixis, especially the gestural usage, symbolic usage, anaphoric usage and non-anaphoric usage.