Definition
Receiving time is the time at which an addressee hears or reads a message.
This time may be the deictic center for expressions of time deixis.
Examples
- In the following utterance, the time referred to by today is the receiving time:
- This programme was recorded last Wednesday, April 1st, to be relayed today.
Sources 2
- Fillmore 1975
- Levinson 1983, 54, 62, 73–74