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Meaning of "deictic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DEICTIC

From Greek deiktikos concerning proof, from deiknunai to show.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DEICTIC

ˈdaɪktɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEICTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Deictic can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DEICTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Deixis

In linguistics, deixis refers to words and phrases that cannot be fully understood without additional contextual information. Words are deictic if their semantic meaning is fixed but their denotational meaning varies depending on time and/or place. Words or phrases that require contextual information to convey any meaning – for example, English pronouns – are deictic. Deixis is closely related to anaphora, as will be further explained below. Although this article deals primarily with deixis in spoken language, the concept can apply to written language, gestures, and communication media as well. While this article draws examples primarily from English, deixis is believed to be a feature of all natural languages. The term’s origin is Ancient Greek: δεῖξις deixis “display, demonstration, or reference”, the meaning point of reference in contemporary linguistics having been taken over from Chrysippus.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEICTIC

amphimictic · anaptyctic · Antarctic · apodeictic · apodictic · apomictic · arctic · chiropractic · didactic · eclectic · endeictic · epideictic · epidictic · galactic · hectic · intergalactic · lactic · panmictic · practic · tactic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEICTIC

deicidal · deicide · deictically · deid · deif · deific · deifical · deification · deified · deifier · deifies · deiform · deify · Deighton · deign · deil · Deimos · deindex · deindexation · deindividuation

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEICTIC

anaphylactic · anorectic · anticlimactic · apoplectic · chemotactic · climactic · dialectic · eutectic · extragalactic · High Arctic · isotactic · malolactic · Palaearctic · smectic · stereotactic · subantarctic · subarctic · syntactic · the Antarctic · the Arctic

Synonyms and antonyms of deictic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «deictic» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DEICTIC

Find out the translation of deictic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of deictic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «deictic» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

指示语
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

deíctico
570 millions of speakers
en

English

deictic
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

deictic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

deictic
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

дейктические
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

deictic
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

deictic
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

déictique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Deiktik
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Zeig
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

直示的な
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

deictic
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Deictic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

deictic
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

deictic
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

विकृत
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

deictic
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

deittico
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

deictic
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

дейктические
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

deictic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δεικτικές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

deiktiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

deiktiska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

deictic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of deictic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEICTIC»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of deictic
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about deictic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEICTIC»

Discover the use of deictic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to deictic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Deictic Conceptualisation of Space, Time, and Person
This volume is a collection of articles which present the results of investigations into the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of deictic expressions in several languages.
Friedrich Lenz, 2003
2
Deictic elements throughout the languages of the world - A ...
[...] Who are the speaker and the addressee?
Martin Lehmannn, 2003
3
Deictic Imaginings: Semiosis at Work and at Play
1.1 Introduction The origin and use of deictic terms, e.g., “I,” “you,” “this,” “that,” “ here,” “there,” “now,” and “then” have fascinated linguists and philosophers for more than a century (Jespersen 1922/2008; Benveniste 1956/1971; Lyons 1968,  ...
Donna E West, 2013
4
Studies in the Acquisition of Deictic Terms
In these studies Dr Tanz investigates children's acquisition of the deictic distinctions.
Christine Tanz, 2009
5
Stdies in Acquistn Deictic Ts
In particular, she evaluates a number of current influential hypotheses, notably those of H. Clark and E. Clark. The volume will be of interest to psychologists and linguists and particularly to researchers in child language.
Christine Tanz, Tanz, S R Anderson, 1980
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Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon
2. The. indexical. ground. of. deictic. reference. WILLIAM. F. HANKS. Editors'. introduction. William F. Hanks received a joint Ph.D. in Anthropology and Linguistics from the University of Chicago, where he is currently Associate Professor of ...
Alessandro Duranti, Charles Goodwin, 1992
7
Direct and Indirect Speech
Temporal deixis As tense is, among other things, a means of time reference, it would not be altogether unreasonable to assume that the deictic pivot determines shifting of tenses in indirect speech, because, after all, the adjustment of the ...
Florian Coulmas, 1986
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Speech and Thought Representation in English: A ...
Deictic centre and deictic shift in DST and IST By and large, the notion of deixis refers to those phenomena in language which make reference to an individual speaker's 'situatedness' in the real world (or in a fictional world) in terms of time and ...
Lieven Vandelanotte, 2009
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The Impact of Training Deictic Frames on Perspective Taking ...
The ability to infer mental states of others---such as beliefs, desires, and intentions---is said to emerge in typically developing individuals between the ages of two and five years.
Timothy M. Weil, 2006
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The Pragmatics of Translation
Deixis appears to be a universal feature of human communication (Kryk, 1990), linking utterances to the contexts in which they are produced via the three fundamental deictic dimensions, viz., the spatial ('Beethoven lived here'); the temporal ...
Leo Hickey, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEICTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term deictic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Vendors lose out in earning from fish waste
... and can also be used in preparing animal feeds for generating bio-fuels, bio-gas plants, preparing deictic products and cosmetics, he added. «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
2
Gay Marriage, Racism and Obamacare: The Challenge of Caring
Deictic relational responding, empathy and experiential avoidance as predictors of social anhedonia: Further contributions from relational ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
3
Spin and PR infecting politics
In private, citizens may rail against the over-Anglicisation of 'apartheid' by South Africans keen to exercise deictic distance from the past and ... «eNCA, Jun 15»
4
Curating Awe In A World Of Endless Miracles
“A story is immersive when it effectively induces a deictic shift, which is the moment when you assume a viewpoint of one of the characters of ... «Forbes, May 15»
5
Professor's Bookshelf: Janne Höltermann
And I wrote a research paper on how space is represented in language using deictic elements. Words like “here” and “there.” For instance, in ... «The Wesleyan Argus, Apr 15»
6
On Being (Roughly) Here
'Here', like 'I', is what linguists call a 'deictic' term – its reference is determined by the location of the person who is using it at the time they are using it: 'here' is ... «Philosophy Now, Jan 15»
7
Lisa Robertson's Cinema of the Present, reviewed: So nice you read …
Pronouns without a stable context are “deictic shifters,” as they allow statements to slip into ambiguity. Robertson revels in this slippage, and ... «National Post, Dec 14»
8
Pointing is infants' first communicative gesture (w/ Video)
... they combine with vocalisations are deictic gestures (pointing and reaching) with a declarative communicative intention (to inform) more than ... «Medical Xpress, Feb 14»
9
Lincoln's rhetoric in the Gettysburg Address
It responds to pressing events, addresses particular audiences and is delivered in particular places that can all be referred to with deictic or ... «OUPblog, Nov 13»
10
A Buddhist Approach to AI
But if we embark on the (however chilling) task of designing divinity without a culture of rich poetic, deictic discourse and inter-personal ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Sep 13»
REFERENCE
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