Chapter Two Deixis(研).pptVIP

Chapter Two Deixis ;2.1 Deixis— a Component of Pragmatic Study; Deixis (a technical term from Greek) means “indicating” or “pointing”. Any linguistic form used to accomplish this “pointing” is called a deictic expression or indexicals.;Deixis is a first area of study in pragmatics;The meaning of deictic expressions cannot be captured by truth-conditional semantics, and their interpretation must depend on analysis of the contexts of utterance in which they occur. For example: You are standing on my toe. Required information: Who said it; To whom; Whether the hearer was in fact standi