deictic

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Of course, we have the right to ironize about the over-the-topness - who among us would so exaggerate the style and so magnify the substance as to make a larger-than-life-size poster, pointing at itself as a deictic genre?

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  1. adjective Logic Directly proving by argument.
  2. adjective Linguistics Of or relating to a word, the determination of whose referent is dependent on the context in which it is said or written. In the sentence I want him to come here now, the words I, here, him, and now are deictic because the determination of their referents depends on who says that sentence, and where, when, and of whom it is said.
  3. noun A deictic word, such as I or there.

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  • Some lawyers are successful in the elenchical mode of argument—to use a logical term—that is, in demolishing the structure of their opponents, while they fail in the deictic, that is, in raising on its ruins an impregnable fabric of their own; but it was difficult to decide which process was the most thorough in the reasoning of Tazewell. —  Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
  • Consequently, moral judgment becomes concrete, situational and totally subjective, a deictic gesture that assigns the predicate "good" or "bad" to this or that concrete practice taking place here and now. —  Eurozine articles
  • I have sharpened up the text by simply changing the indefinite article a to the deictic pronoun this. —  The Continuum
  • Of course, we have the right to ironize about the over-the-topness - who among us would so exaggerate the style and so magnify the substance as to make a larger-than-life-size poster, pointing at itself as a deictic genre? —  PoetryFoundation.org
  • The pragmatics and social meaning of each phrase varies, especially depending on the context, and the deictic center —  Ask MetaFilter
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  1. Greek deiktikos, from deiktos, able to show directly, from deiknunai, to show; see deik- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. The reg. L. analogy would require *dictic (cf. apodictic); from Greek δεικτικός, serving to show, from δεικνύναι, show, akin to Anglo-Saxon tæcan, English teach: see teach.
 

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