Deixis and Anaphora

Main author: Jiang, Yan
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description This chapter describes the main types and usages of deictics and anaphors. The phenomenon of deixis involves the use of a word or phrase whose interpretation is determined through considerations of the physical properties in the situation of utterance, from the perspective of the speaker or the addressee who are engaged in the act of communication. When the need to make further structural distinctions is in order, a deictic consisting of one single word is referred to as a “deictic term,” while a larger deictic built around a deictic term is referred to as a “deictic expression.”
author_additional Huang, Chu-Ren
author_additionalStr Huang, Chu-Ren
format Book Chapters
author Jiang, Yan
author_facet Jiang, Yan
authorStr Jiang, Yan
author_letter Jiang, Yan
title Deixis and Anaphora
publisher Cambridge University Press
publishDate 2016
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/21763/