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What is a deixis?

What is a deixis? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (linguistics) A reference within a sentence that relies on the context being known to enable correct interpretation.
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Place deixis, also known as space deixis, concerns itself with the spatial locations relevant to an utterance.
In the past, deixis was associated specifically with spatiotemporal reference whereas indexicality was used more broadly.
Time, or temporal, deixis concerns itself with the various times involved in and referred to in an utterance.
In concert with contemporary theory, she posits a world of belated, thwarted deixis, of quasi-chimerical example.
These categories of deixis were first discussed by Fillmore and Lyons.
Social deixis concerns the social information that is encoded within various expressions, such as relative social status and familiarity.

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