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This document discusses the linguistic concept of deixis. It begins by defining deixis as expressions that relate language to context through reference to people, objects, times, places involved in the communication. There are five main types of deixis: person, time, place, social, and discourse. For each type, examples are provided from different languages to illustrate how deixis is encoded grammatically and how meaning depends on the contextual relationships between speakers, addressees, and references.
- Author
- leah
- Language
- EN