Deixis Types With Focus On Time Deixis And Deictic Circle
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Deixis Types with focus on Time Deixis and Deictic Circle by Ha Mi Nguyen Pdf
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Vechta, language: English, abstract: In this term paper I will introduce you into the topic “deixis” in the English language, where I will especially focus on one of the main types of deixis: time deixis. First of all, I am going to give a short definition of deixis in general. After that I will mention the types of deixis and give some information about each of them. Moreover, I will explain time deixis in detail and I will also talk about the deictic circle in relation to shifting from the direct into indirect speech with special focus on time deixis.
Deictic elements throughout the languages of the world - A comparison by Martin Lehmannn Pdf
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0 (A), Free University of Berlin (Institute for English Philology), course: Lexical Semantics, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: [...] Who are the speaker and the addressee? When and where did the utterance take place? The tokens “I”, “you”, “next week” and “here” are deictic expressions. According to Charles J. Fillmore (FILLMORE 1997: §1) “[d]eixis can be defined as the anchorage of an utterance in the extralinguistic context.” Anderson ́s and Keenan ́s definition (1985) is similar to Fillmore ́s: “Following standard usage, we consider as deictic expressions (or deictics for short) those linguistic elements whose interpretation in simple sentences makes essential reference to properties of the extralinguistic context of the utterance in which they occur.”1 (ANDERSON and KEENAN 1985: 259) The “most frequently quoted definition” (LENZ 2003: VII) of deixis comes from John Lyons (1977): “By deixis is meant the location and identification of persons, objects, events, processes and activities being talked about, or referred to, in relation to the spatiotemporal context created and sustained by the act of utterance and the participation in it, typically, of a single speaker and at least one addressee.” (Lyons 1977: 637) The definitions show that deixis does not merely belong to the field of semantics. The use of deictic elements depends on a particular context. Thus, deixis is on the interface of semantics and pragmatics. Since deixis is a universal phenomenon, typologists examine its variations and similarities throughout the languages of the world. The initial example shows that we rely heavily on deictic elements in every-day language. We refer to places, objects, persons, times, and many more things by means of deixis. Therefore, the study of deixis is not only interesting to linguists but to anyone who is engaged in language in general. My approach is to use deictic elements in English as a starting point. I will then move on to compare the strategies of English with those of other languages. My aims are to show how wide the range of deictic elements in human language is and how much the concepts of certain languages vary from what we are used to. There are different types of deixis: The main categories are local deixis, person deixis, social deixis, furthermore time deixis and manner deixis. This paper concentrates on local deixis, “the prototype of deixis” (SENNHOLZ 1985: 168-169). Additionally, a general overview on person and social deixis is provived.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1.7, University of Duisburg-Essen, course: Pragmatics, language: English, abstract: As the information system in our modern technology world becomes more and more important, the research about language and especially commuication has grown to a major element of today’s scholarship. Pragmatics, as a linguistic science dealing with communication, generally is “concernedwith the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker (or writer) and interpreted by a listener (or reader)”(see Yule,1996: 3). Thus, not the actual meaning of the words are decisive, but the interpretation of the utterance. A simple principle of language use is the fact, that the more two speakers have in common, the less language they will need to use to identify familiar things. When two persons share the same physical context, the speaker frequently uses demonstratives, pronouns, adverbs and other grammatical features to establish a relationship between language and context. We call these words indexicals and the function of language deictic. In today’s society deictic usage of laguage becomes more and more problematic. Lyon states: “Thefacts of deixis should act as a constant reminder [...] that natural languages are primarily desigend, so to speak, for use in face-to-face interaction, and thus there are limits to the extent to which they can be analysed [...]”(Lyons, 1977 in Levinson, 1983: 54). The permanent application of communicative aids like computers, cellphones or pagers evokes a lack of face-to-face interaction and increases the amount of disaccords during a conversation. In this paper I will illustrate and illuminate the different modes of deictic expressions and ascribe it to the problem of understanding in today’s society. First, I will give a short definition of deixis as well as a historical grading. Below, I will concentrate on the three major categories person, place and time and briefly on the subcategories social and discourse deixis. Considering as examples the specific categories and their special features will be described and analysed. I conclude with a brief survey about grammar and whether the field of deixis should be classified in pragmatics or in semantics. Finally, I will give a short conclusion that works up the problem of understanding via deictic expression in today’s society.
The Principles of Politeness and Social Deixis by Christian Hensgens Pdf
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2, University of Cologne, course: Pragmatics and Speech Act Theory, language: English, abstract: „Have a look over there! You will have to do that next week.“ If we wanted to follow and to join this conversation, we would need to know different pieces of information from the extralinguistic context: Where and when did the action take place? And finally, who are the speaker and the addressee? The tokens “there”, “you”, “that”, and “next week” can be described as deictic expressions or - for short - deictics (THOMAS 1995: 9). The term “deictic expression” comes from the Greek word deiktikós (“pointing at”) (BUßMANN 2002: 149). Lyons defines deixis to be “the location and identification of persons, objects, events, processes, and activities being talked about, or referred to, in relation to the spatiotemporal context created and sustained by the act of utterance and the participation in it, typically, of a single speaker and at least one addressee” (JARVELLA / KLEIN 1982: 35). We are frequently faced with deictic expressions in everyday-languagewhether consciously or unconsciously - in the way that we refer to persons, places, times, and various different other things. Thereby, we would receive a demand such as “Do this!” or “Keep out!” as much more rude and aggressive than a - more politely - demand such as “Would you mind to do this?” or “Please, do not disturb”. Obviously, we are able to feel the delicate differences between both demands while speaking and we seem to be able to make adequate use of these differences. Why is that so? Why do we receive two demands with quite the same content in different ways? What are these differences like, how are they received, and which advantages does a speaker gain from either using the one expression or the other? It seems that deixis and politeness are connected in a way and that the use of different deictic expressions also has different effects on the politeness expressed through these deictic expressions. Insofar, it can be stated that we are just on the interface between deixis and politeness. My aims are to find answers to the questions above, to give an overview of the prevailing politeness principles, and to draw a connection to social deixis in particular. I will first organize the different categories of deixis and then concentrate on the politeness principles developed by Brown and Levinson.
Deictic Conceptualisation of Space, Time, and Person by Friedrich Lenz Pdf
This volume is a collection of articles which present the results of investigations into the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of deictic expressions in several languages. Special emphasis is placed on contrastive studies that take cognitive and cultural context into account. Both the empirical and theoretical studies focus on the ways in which spatial, temporal, personal and textual entities are conceptualised and referred to. The cognitive approach proves to be a promising perspective combining aspects of perception, reasoning and linguistic expression to reveal what seems to be at the very heart of deictics.
Discourse and Language Education by Evelyn Hatch Pdf
Discourse and Language Education is part of the Cambridge Language Teaching Library series. Discourse analysis describes how such communication is structured, so that it is socially appropriate and linguistically accurate. This book gives practical experience in analyzing discourse and the study of written language. The analyses show the ways we use linguistic signals to carry out our discourse goals and the differences between written and spoken language as well as across languages. This text can be used as a manual in teacher education courses and linguistics and communications courses. It will be of great interest to second language teachers, foreign language teachers, and special education teachers (especially those involved with the hearing impaired).
Author : Charles J. Fillmore Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study Page : 145 pages File Size : 54,8 Mb Release : 1997-01-01 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 1575860066
Introducing English Semantics by Charles W. Kreidler Pdf
Annotation Focusing on the English language, this comprehensive and accessible introduction to semantics explores how languages organize and express meaning through words, parts of words and sentences. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.
Author : Konstanze Jungbluth,Federica Da Milano Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG Page : 788 pages File Size : 52,6 Mb Release : 2015-10-16 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 9783110317732
Manual of Deixis in Romance Languages by Konstanze Jungbluth,Federica Da Milano Pdf
Deixis as a field of research has generated increased interest in recent years. It is crucial for a number of different subdisciplines: pragmatics, semantics, cognitive and contrastive linguistics, to name just a few. The subject is of particular interest to experts and students, philosophers, teachers, philologists, and psychologists interested in the study of their language or in comparing linguistic structures. The different deictic structures – not only the items themselves, but also the oppositions between them – reflect the fact that neither the notions of space, time, person nor our use of them are identical cross-culturally. This diversity is not restricted to the difference between languages, but also appears among related dialects and language varieties. This volume will provide an overview of the field, focusing on Romance languages, but also reaching beyond this perspective. Chapters on diachronic developments (language change), comparisons with other (non-)European languages, and on interfaces with neighboring fields of interest are also included. The editors and authors hope that readers, regardless of their familiarity with Romance languages, will gain new insights into deixis in general, and into the similarities and differences among deictic structures used in the languages of the world.
Contrastive Functional Analysis by Andrew Chesterman Pdf
Why is a raven like a writing-desk? The concept of similarity lies at the heart of this new book on contrastive analysis. Similarity judgements depend partly on properties of the objects being compared, and partly on what the person judging considers to be relevant to the assessment; similarity thus has both objective and subjective aspects. The author shows how contrastive analysis and translation theory make use of the concept in different ways, and explains how it relates to the problematic notions of equivalence and tertium comparationis. The book then develops a meaning-based contrastive methodology, and outlines one theory of semantic structure which can be used in this methodology. The approach is illustrated with four sample studies covering different kinds of phenomena in some European languages. The final part of the book proposes an extension of the theoretical framework to cover contrastive rhetoric: the aim is to suggest a unified approach linking aspects of semantics, pragmatics and rhetoric. Keywords: similarity, contrastive analysis, functional grammar, semantics, rhetoric, translation.
This monograph explores the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality of Korean, which has a rich verbal inflectional system, and proposes novel treatments within the framework of compositional semantics. One of the major contributions is the demonstration that Korean has two types of deictic tensesimple deictic and spatial deictic tense. Spatial deictic tense refers to the notion of the speaker's 'perceptual field' (or deictic range), as well as to temporality, functioning to set up a condition for a systematic evidential distinction. The research in this volume shows that the basic paradigm of evidentiality of Korean derives from the standard TMA system combined with the notion of space. This volume also shows that perfect and past tense utilize different primitives. The intended readership of this volume extends beyond Koreanists to scholars interested specifically in tense, mood, aspect, and evidentiality as well as in general theories of grammar and semantics-pragmatics.
Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics by Alan Cruse Pdf
This alphabetic guide introduces terms referring to key concepts in semantics and pragmatics. The study of meaning as it is conveyed through language - the domain of semantics and pragmatics--is one of the central concerns of linguistics, and its importance cannot be exaggerated. Written by an author well-known in the field of semantics, the glossary provides clear and accessible explanations of terms drawn from a wide range of theoretical approaches.
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers by Eva Haji?ová,Old?ich Leka,Petr Sgall,Zdena Skoumalová Pdf
Volume 2 of the Prague Linguistic Circle Papers constitutes a single whole together with Vol. 1 of the series, reviving the classical series of Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague which was of great importance for the development of European structural linguistics in the 1930s. In the present volume, nine Czech linguists and eight authors from abroad present new ideas in various domains from basic properties of the system of language to discourse types and to history of linguistics in the 20th century. Fundamental issues of structural linguistics are discussed by C.H. van Schooneveld and F. Čermák, those of quantitative linguistics by M. Těšitelová, of sentence structure by H.-H. Lieb, Y. Tobin, J. Panevová, T. Gross and J. Šabršula, discourse patterns are dealt with by J. Hoffmannová, S. Čmejrková and F. Šticha, phonology and graphemics by E. Battistella, A. Svoboda and P.A. Luelsdorff with S.V. Chesnokov, and the lexicon by L. Waugh and V. Straková.