Analyse the contexts in the following situations
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- II. Identify the deictic expressions, then state what kind of deixis they are
- Identify the types of reference
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TUTORIAL 1.1: CONTEXT, DEIXIS AND REFERENCE Analyse the contexts in the following situations: In the grocery store: Customer: How much are the mangoes? Shop keeper: Sorry, let me check. Customer: OK, OK, I can see it now. … Teacher: Why haven’t you submitted the reflection I told you yesterday, Sue? Sue: There was a power cut in my place last night. … II. Identify the deictic expressions, then state what kind of deixis they are 1. Paula and I will work together from now on. 2. Let’s turn to the next page first, and then we will come back to this page. 3. I was told she was in a taxi then. 4. Please don’t look inside, it’s messy in there. 5. Both authors of this book were born half a century ago. 6. The Magna Carta was signed 900 years ago. 7. They came to Poland on September 1, 1939. 8. Finally, the switch will be found on your right. 9. Your majesty, here comes the composer of the song you heard last week. 10. It was only then that she pulled him towards her. Identify the types of reference: Deixis usually requires a speaker and a hearer sharing the same context and it is an application of a general pragmatic principle which says that the more two speakers have in common, the less language they will need to identify familiar things. There have been a lot of documentations about deixis. The most influential study can be credited to Charles Fillmore’s Santa Crusez Lectures on Deixis in 1971. According to him, deixis can be roughly categorized into five types: They are deixis of person (personal deixis), deixis of place (spatial deixis), deixis of time (temporal deixis), deixis of discourse (discoursal deixis), and deixis for social purposes (social deixis). Apparently social deixis is for the sake of politeness in social interaction. An often cited example is the French “tu” and “vous”, the former a plain way of referring to any second person hearer while the latter a polite or indirect way of referring to any second person hearer. tải về 14.51 Kb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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