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Deixis
Meaning
Noun
●
In Linguistics:
The use of a
word
, such as a
pronoun
, to
refer
to something that must be
identified
from the
wider
context
; a
word
used in such a way.
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deixis
English
δείξις
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
δείκνυμι
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
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