Glossary term P

Place Deixis

Place deixis is deictic reference to a location relative to the location of a participant in the speech event, typically the speaker.

(English)

  • this (way)
  • that (direction)
  • here
  • there

More specific concepts within place deixis.

  1. Levinson 1983, 62
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