On Translation of Social Deictics Between English and Chinese 英语毕业论文.docVIP

On Translation of Social Deictics Between English and Chinese Introduction Deixis is a universal linguistic phenomenon. It is the single most obvious way in which the relationship between language and context is reflected in the structures of languages themselves. According to Fillmore and Levinson, deixis can be classified into five types: person deixis, time deixis, place deixis, discourse deixis and social deixis. Social deixis, in Fillmore’s view, concerns “that aspect of sentences which reflect or establish or are determined by certain realities of the social situation in which the speech