Types of Deixis in Pragmatics (Short Article)

 

"We should not do the bad things among others" Said the Imam

1.      Person Deixis

It is concerned with the identification of interlocutor or participant roles in a speech event. It is commonly expressed by; Personal pronouns, Vocatives (titles, proper names etc.),

2.      Time Deixis

It is concerned with the encoding of temporal points and spans relative to the time at which an utterance is produced in a speech event.

3.      Space Deixis

Is concerned with the specification of location in space relative to that of the participants at CT in a speech event.

4.      Social Deixis

It is concerned with the codification of the social status of the speaker, the addressee or the third person or entity referred to as well as social relationships holding between them.

5.      Discourse Deixis

It is concerned with the use of a linguistic expression within some utterance to point the current, preceding or following utterances in the same spoken or written discourse. It also can be said as propositions.