Deixis and distance


+ represent someone or something else



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deixis and distance

+ represent someone or something else.
eg. “I was looking at this little puppy in a cage with such a sad look on its face. It was like, 'Oh, I'm so unhappy here, will you set me free?‘ (Yule, 1996/13)



  • psychological distance
  • Physically close  psychologically close
  • Physically distant  psychologically distant
  • Physically close  psychologically distant

  • eg. I don’t like that

Temporal deixis
Deictic expressions:
Moment of utterance
Before utterance
After utterance
Yesterday
Before
then
This afternoon
Today
now
Soon
Tomorrow
Then
distal forms
Proximal forms
distal forms
  • All these expressions depend on knowing the relevant utterance time to be interpreted

  • eg. 10% discount Tomorrow.
    (Yule, 1996/14)


The psychological basis of temporal deixis

Proximal terms
(move towards the speaker

Distal terms
(go away from the speaker)

this coming week
the approaching year

in days gone by
the past week

+ proximal form: present tense
+ distal: past tense (happen in the past, unlikely or impossible)
Eg. I could ride a bike when I was 6
I would travel around the world if I had a lot of money.
The choice of verb tenses

DEIXIS AND GRAMMAR


DE NADA
GRACIAS

Grammar brings different interpretation

  • Proximal deictic:
  • e.g. are you planning to be here this evening? (direct speech)

  • Distal deictic:

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