Linguistics 【语言学】
- (of a word or expression, or its meaning) relating directly to something in the context in which it is used, as for example the pronouns I and you（单词、短语或其意义）指示的。亦称DEICTIC.
- an indexical word or expression指示词; 指示词句。
词源
early 20th cent.: coined in this sense by the American philosopher C. S. Peirce.