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Chapter 10 Pragmatics

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1 What kinds of deictic expressions are used here (e.g. We = person deixis)?(a) We went there last summer.

(a) We (person deixis), went there (spatial deixis), last summer (temporal deixis)

1 What kinds of deictic expressions are used here (e.g. We = person deixis)? (b) I’m busy now so you can’t stay here. Come back later.

(b) I, you (person deixis), here, come back (spatial deixis), now, later (temporal deixis)

2 How do we describe the pragmatic difference between the pair here and now versus there and then?

Speakers use here and now when talking about things close to them and there and then for things distant or not close to them.

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