deictic


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a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs

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In addition, the majority of my premodifiers were composed of a deictic and an epithet: for some reason, I did not choose to build my nominal groups with a classifier.
Most RFT studies on deictic relations, or perspective-taking that appears to involve these relations, have employed the Barnes-Holmes (2001) protocol, originally developed to assess and establish these relations in young children.
MP: ((Ss talking and moving in seats)) Dear Lord we thank you for this::: ((to Ss)) Alright let's take some prayer time Let's be lead to this reflection and meditation (3.8) ((most Ss stop moving and chatting)) Be at peace Be open (1.8) Or at least just be still (4.0) Dear Lord we thank you for the gift of your church This recognizable interaction presents the simultaneous intersection of a variety of sociolinguistic properties: speaking on behalf of another, speaking in the collective pronomial deictic "we", providing educational directions as to how to bodily and mentally participate in a prayer, and the invocation of ritual formulae to let the listeners know this is now a prayer.
All types of relational framing are involved in deriving contents about oneself, but deictic and, particularly, hierarchical framing seem key aspects in the development, fluency, and expansion of self-contents (Luciano, 2017).
Throughout the work, all four expressions alternate, even in the titles of the sections discussing this phenomenon, which read "Deictic use of demonstratives" (2.3.2, p.
IDCs- speaker and the addressee, duly positioned in the deictic centre, facing an external threat entity construed as moving from the apparent periphery of the DS in the direction of the DS centre.
PREMODIFIER NOMINAL PREPOSITION PREMODIFIER NUMERATIVE (DEICTIC) (DEICTIC) an integration of the two PREMODIFIER NOMINAL (DEICTIC) an approaches As revealed in Table 5, the first three prevalent patterns are #5, #1, and #4 in Physics; and #4, #1, and #5 in Applied Linguistics, respectively.
6-16) In keeping the problem of reference originating in the deictic first line alive, the images of the middle quatrains are not simply figurative; they are also difficult ("little gaping snakes") or impossible (midnight's "giant heart of Memory and Tears") to draw up, even as figures.
"Ghostly all along." This seems quite a good description not only of postwar poems but of poems more broadly--their diegetic scrims, their deictic overlays, their echoes and reverb, their figurations that at once bid for translucency and offer opacity, their strange submergence in and emergence from a long history of poets and poems.The point, then, is not to object by suggesting that this has all happened before, but to investigate how it happens now.
She shows how erasure of sand drawing segments combined with deictic gestures and speech serve to convey shifts in scene and thematic content.
By treating spirit possession as a deictic term that is open and inclusive, she emphasizes what people do, without distinguishing between whether they regard it as divine or demonic experience, as religious or secular.
Ballard and others argue for a modeling of cognition (and therefore of artificial intelligence) that relies on deictic embodiment.
In the article "Heritage, Second-Language and Native Speakers' Intuitions on Deictic Verbs in Spanish: Beyond the Linguist's Intuitions," Daniel Chui uses the classical results based on the analysis of the deictic verbs venir and traer carried out by Fillmore (1975) and concludes that both heritage speakers and second language learners made a significantly higher number of errors than native speakers when the direction expressed in the stimulus was oriented towards the listener, suggesting that both groups may benefit from instruction on this topic.