语用学Deixis

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Deixis
CONTENT
• Exercise
• The notion of deixis
• Deictic usage VS non-deictic usage
• Different usages of deictic terms
EXERCISE
• a. Flying planes can be dangerous.
• c. It’s the taste.
• It’s the taste I like • It’s the taste I dislike.
NOTION
• Deixis, derived from Greek, means “show”, “point” or “indicate” in English.
Different Usages
• Deictic usage
• (1)specific usage • (2)gestural usage • (3)symbolic usage • (4)non-calendrical
• Non-deictic usage
• (1)generic usage • (2)calendrical usage • (3)anaphoric usage
them.
• (2) Time deixis: now, then, tonight, last
week.
• (3) Space/spatial/place deixis: here,
there, nearby.
• (4) Discourse deixis: 话语指示语 In the
previous/ next paragraph, or Have you heard this joke?
• Flying planes can be planes that are flying.飞行 中的飞机是危险的。 • To fly the plane is a dangerous behavior.飞飞机 是一件危险的事。
• b. Shooting of hunters is cruel.
• Shooting animals is a cruel behavior. • Shooting hunters is a cruel behavior.
to refer to the location of the utterance or the speaker’s position with the picture.
• b.the deictic expression is in deictic usage
because the reference is based on either the speaker or the addressee(who is looking at the picture).
• It is used to refer to the function that
certain lexemes and grammatical means have in language communication.
• They are called deictic forms, deictic
• (5) Social deixis: honorifics敬语 (forms
to show respect such as Professor Li)
• Big Sale Tomorrow.
• Deixis belongs to pragmatic study
since it reveals a very close relationship between language and context.
expressions, deictics, indexicals (指引语) or indexical expressions .
TYPES
Discourse deixis
Space deixis Time deixis
Social deixis
Person deixis
• (1) Person deixis: me, you, him and
• That is to say, the deictic expression is
specified and interpreted either from the speaker’s perspective or the addressee’s perspective.
Between deictic and non-deictic usages, the former is the focus of pragmatics because it shows how context helps people to understand and specify deictic information.
• By non-deictic usage, it means the interpretation
and understanding of deictic expressions do not need to refer to utterance context.
• Look at the picture in page 24 and answer the
Deictic
Non-Deictic
• By deictic usage, it means the interpretation and
understanding of deictic expressions can only be
made clear with reference to utterance context.
usage
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• a. What is on the football player’s right? • b. What is to the right of the football players?
ANALYSIS
• a. The reference point is fixed and does not need
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