1. Diectic Expression
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2. What is diectic expression?
A deictic expression is an
expression that has a diectic usage
as its basic usage, though it may
also have nondeictic usages.

3. Deixis
• The word deixis comes from the
Greek adjective deiktikos meaning
‘pointing, indicative.’
• Deixis is the marking of the
orientation or position of entities
and events with respect to certain
points of reference.

4. Example
• I want this dish, this dish, and this
dish.
• To interpret this utterance, the
waiter must have information about
who I refers to, about the time at
which the utterance is produced,
and about what the three noun
phrases this dish refer to.
• We say that I is a deictic
expression, and so are the presenttense form of the verb and the

5. Kinds of diexis
• Deixis consists of three semantic
notions, all related to the
orientation or position of
• events or entities in the real world.

6. 1. Personal Deixis
• Personal deixis is commonly
conveyed through personal pronouns:
I versus you versus he or she.
• I really should be going now.
• Did you return the video I asked
you to?

7. 2. Spatial Deixis
• Spatial deixis refers to orientation
in space: here versus there and this
versus that
• The child that (away from you and
me)

8. 3. Temporal Deixis
• Temporal deixis refers to
orientation in time, as in present
versus past.
• I walk to school every day. (nonpast
tense)
• I walked to school every day. (past
tense)

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