1 Act of pointing out or indicating elements of a situation by gesture or linguistic expressions. ( also anaphora) 2 Characteristic function of linguistic expressions that relate to the personal, spatial, and temporal aspect of utterances depending...

Term adopted by C.S. Peirce from formal logic for linguistic expressions that refer to the personal, temporal, or spatial aspect of any given utterance act and whose designation is therefore dependent on the context of the speech situation. Among the...

// n. Reference by a term forming part of a system expressing a deictic category: you, now, there, this or a past-tense marker. Adj. deictic. See Anderson and Keenan...

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In pragmatics and linguistics, deixis (Greek: δειξις display, demonstration, or reference, the meaning "point of reference" in contemporary linguistics having been taken over from Chrysippus, Stoica 2,65) is a process whereby words or expressions...