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Question		Answer
what deixis means start learning		‘’pointing’’ via language. Any linguistic form used to achieve this ‘’pointing’’ is called Deictic expression or ‘’indexicals’’. If you notice a strange object and ask ‘’what’s that?’’ you are using a deictic expression
Near speaker start learning		proximal terms (this, here, now)
Away from speaker start learning		distal terms (that, there, then)
Person Deixis start learning		Person deixis dealing with the grammatical persons with an utterance. me, you, them, I am, he, they
Spatial/ place deixis start learning		also known as space deixis, related to the spatial locations relevant to an utterance. Here/ there, This / that
Temporal Deixis start learning		time expressions ‘’now’’, ‘’then’’, ‘’soon’’,"suddenly"

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