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... DEIXIS Because deictics require the reader / listener to identify their reference , both it and this are " flag words . " When a deictic has no identifiable referent in the context , it is a false deictic . It points to nothing . False ...
... DEIXIS Because deictics require the reader / listener to identify their reference , both it and this are " flag words . " When a deictic has no identifiable referent in the context , it is a false deictic . It points to nothing . False ...
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... deixis serves a variety of rhetorical strategies for English speakers . False deictics force readers / listeners to make contextual guesses to make " sense " of what they hear and read . Using deictic elements to refer to large chunks ...
... deixis serves a variety of rhetorical strategies for English speakers . False deictics force readers / listeners to make contextual guesses to make " sense " of what they hear and read . Using deictic elements to refer to large chunks ...
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... deixis doesn't mean that the utterance is unin- terpretable or impossible to understand . False deixis is the use of a deictic word , a word that's supposed to have an antecedent within the immediate context , when there is no explicit ...
... deixis doesn't mean that the utterance is unin- terpretable or impossible to understand . False deixis is the use of a deictic word , a word that's supposed to have an antecedent within the immediate context , when there is no explicit ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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