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Finally, there are the uses of these pronouns in which we shall be interested, the indexical (or demonstrative or deictic) uses, as in (5) and (6).
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- adjective Logic Directly proving by argument.
- 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.
- noun A deictic word, such as I or there.
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Finally, there are the uses of these pronouns in which we shall be interested, the indexical (or demonstrative or deictic) uses, as in (5) and (6).
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In the case of ellipsis and anaphoric (and cataphoric) pronouns the designation is determined, or at least constrained, by the linguistic context of the utterance, while the designation of deictic demonstratives is fixed by contextual extralinguistic facts.
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(where âhimâ™ is deictic, or perhaps, anaphoric) and
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(linguistic context, in cases of anaphoric co-designation; extra-linguistic context in cases of indexicals and deictic uses of demonstratives) to look for the designation of the pronoun.
— Pragmatics - Some lawyers are successful in the elenchical mode of argument â” to use a logical term â” 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
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- Greek deiktikos, from deiktos, able to show directly, from deiknunai, to show; see deik- in Indo-European roots.
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/ (dīkˈtĭk)/
ahd pronounces "deictic"
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