Definition
Discourse deixis is deictic reference to a portion of a discourse relative to the speaker's current “location” in the discourse.
Examples
(English)
Use of this to refer to a story one is about to tell in:
Reference to Chapter 7 of a book by means of in the next chapter or in the previous chapter, depending on whether the reference is made from Chapter 6 or 8.
Use of this in a creaky-voiced utterance of:
Kinds
More specific concepts within discourse deixis.
Sources 2
- Levinson 1983, 62–63, 85, 89
- Lyons 1977b, 667-668