2. What is diectic expression? A deictic expression is an
expression that has a diectic usage as its basic usage, though it
may also have nondeictic usages. 3. Deixis The word deixis comes
from the Greek adjective deiktikos meaning pointing, indicative.
Deixis is the marking of the orientation or position of entities
and events with respect to certainpoints of reference. 4. Example I
want this dish, this dish, and this dish. To interpret this
utterance, the waiter must have information about who I refers to,
about the time at which the utterance is produced, and about what
the three noun phrases this dish refer to. We say that I is a
deictic expression, and so are the presenttense form of the verb
and the 5. Kinds of diexis Deixis consists of three semantic
notions, all related to the orientation or position of events or
entities in the real world. 6. 1. Personal Deixis Personal deixis
is commonly conveyed through personal pronouns: I versus you versus
he or she. I really should be going now. Did you return the video I
asked you to? 7. 2. Spatial Deixis Spatial deixis refers to
orientation in space: here versus there and this versus that The
child that (away from you and me) 8. 3. Temporal Deixis Temporal
deixis refers to orientation in time, as in present versus past. I
walk to school every day. (nonpast tense) I walked to school every
day. (past tense) 9. THANK YOU
