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Deixis
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Deixis is the study of expressions such as “I,” “you,” “here,” “there,” “this,” and “that,” i.e., expressions that have no meaningful interpretation outside a communicative event.The article first discusses the notions and concepts that are related to the term “deixis”: indexicality, shifter, egocentric expression, deictic shift, secondary deixis, endophora, and anaphora.…

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Mendoza, Imke, “Deixis”, in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief: Marc L. Greenberg, General Editor: Lenore A. Grenoble. Consulted online on 25 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032221>
First published online: 2020



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