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单词 deictic
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Definition of deictic in English:

deictic

adjective ˈdʌɪktɪkˈdeɪktɪkˈdaɪktɪk
Linguistics
  • Relating to or denoting a word or expression whose meaning is dependent on the context in which it is used (such as here, you, me, that one there, or next Tuesday).

    (与)指示(有关)的(如here,you,me,that one there或next Tuesday)。亦称INDEXICAL

    Also called indexical
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In acts of deictic reference, speakers integrate schematic with local knowledge.
    • Action signs, like vocal signs also take part in deictic (space/time) reference, indexicality and performativity.
    • In these ‘referential’ uses, it is replaceable by the deictic pronouns this and that (This is red, That is possible).
    • The third-person examples are much improved if the pronouns are clearly deictic rather than anaphoric; the first-person examples are already deictic, of course.
    • The algorithm accounts for deictic as well as anaphoric referential identifications.
noun ˈdʌɪktɪkˈdeɪktɪkˈdaɪktɪk
Linguistics
  • A deictic word or expression.

    指示词;指示表达

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They center in the words ‘tangent’, ‘quiet’, ‘evidence’, the notable enjambment at the end of the line group, and the deictics ‘Here’ and ‘there’.
    • To understand a deictic is therefore not to ‘interpret’ it but simply to grasp by observation what it singles out in the physical situation of utterance.
    • The deictics in are introduced by ‘here’ or ‘there’ and serve to direct the hearer's attention to an entity currently in the speaker's perceptual field.
    • Particular attention is given to the minute performance of pronouns and deictics such as ‘this’ and ‘that’ which mark the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them'’.
    • Not surprisingly, there's a predominant use of deictics throughout the text, ‘now’ ‘here’ ‘I’, a device used here to confirm, the congruence of the writer with the time and place of writing.

Derivatives

  • deictically

  • adverb
    Linguistics
    • ‘You’ can be used both deictically (when the context is required to determine the reference) and non-deictically (when the reference is general rather than to particular identifiable persons).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One simple solution might be to incorporate deictically oriented directional predicates into hierarchy above to derive a new one.
      • The picture which emerges is one in which processes denoted by constituents in the verb phrase are all deictically referred to the initial action of attention associated with subject position.
      • The ‘s-evk’ coding indicates that the speaker is using a lexical subject to refer to something deictically.
      • Our data contradict this prediction: it is not used deictically, but used only anaphorically.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Greek deiktikos, deiktos 'capable of proof', from deiknunai 'to show'.

Definition of deictic in US English:

deictic

adjectiveˈdīktikˈdaɪktɪk
Linguistics
  • Relating to or denoting a word or expression whose meaning is dependent on the context in which it is used, e.g., here, you, me, that one there, or next Tuesday.

    (与)指示(有关)的(如here,you,me,that one there或next Tuesday)。亦称INDEXICAL

    Also called indexical
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In acts of deictic reference, speakers integrate schematic with local knowledge.
    • The third-person examples are much improved if the pronouns are clearly deictic rather than anaphoric; the first-person examples are already deictic, of course.
    • The algorithm accounts for deictic as well as anaphoric referential identifications.
    • Action signs, like vocal signs also take part in deictic (space/time) reference, indexicality and performativity.
    • In these ‘referential’ uses, it is replaceable by the deictic pronouns this and that (This is red, That is possible).
nounˈdīktikˈdaɪktɪk
Linguistics
  • A deictic word or expression.

    指示词;指示表达

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They center in the words ‘tangent’, ‘quiet’, ‘evidence’, the notable enjambment at the end of the line group, and the deictics ‘Here’ and ‘there’.
    • To understand a deictic is therefore not to ‘interpret’ it but simply to grasp by observation what it singles out in the physical situation of utterance.
    • The deictics in are introduced by ‘here’ or ‘there’ and serve to direct the hearer's attention to an entity currently in the speaker's perceptual field.
    • Particular attention is given to the minute performance of pronouns and deictics such as ‘this’ and ‘that’ which mark the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them'’.
    • Not surprisingly, there's a predominant use of deictics throughout the text, ‘now’ ‘here’ ‘I’, a device used here to confirm, the congruence of the writer with the time and place of writing.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Greek deiktikos, deiktos ‘capable of proof’, from deiknunai ‘to show’.

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