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On Deixis And Displacement by PETER AUER is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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Delimiting human language against other symboüc codes, Benveniste writes: "Le caractere du langage est de procurer un substitut de Fexperience apte ä etre transmis sans fin dans le temps et Fespace, ce qui est le propre de notre symbolisme et le fondement de la tradition linguistique." 1 Indeed, it is one of the most central characteristics of human language that it is able to free itself from the 'bonds' of the immediate spatio-temporal surroundings of its production. This ability is an ontogenetically and phylogenetically late development 2 and the condition for literacy. But of course, interaction among adult humans is not always independent 3 of the Umfeld, or Situation, either. On the contrary: although adult humans are capable of using language without the help of situational props, they very frequently do not care: 'informaF situations -whatever that may be -allow the use of the onto-and phylogenetically older, 'more naturaF forms of speech, more or lese heavily relying upon the Situation. (In fact, Bernstein's distinction between social networks that require the use of a "restricted" and those that require the (additional) use of an "elaborate" code 4 may be rephrased in te
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- Author
- PETER AUER
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)