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Meaning of "deixis" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DEIXIS

From Greek, from deiknunai to show.

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

PRONUNCIATION OF DEIXIS

ˈdaɪksɪs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEIXIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Deixis is a noun.
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.

WHAT DOES DEIXIS 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.

Definition of deixis in the English dictionary

The definition of deixis in the dictionary is the use or reference of a deictic word.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEIXIS

amphimixis · anaphylaxis · anaptyxis · apomixis · axis · cathexis · chemoprophylaxis · chemotaxis · endeixis · endomixis · epistaxis · lexis · panmixis · praxis · prophylaxis · ptyxis · pyxis · stylostixis · taxis · Zeuxis

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEIXIS

deinosaur · deinothere · deinotheria · deinotherium · deionisation · deionization · deionizer · deiparous · deipnosophist · Deirdre · deiseal · deisheal · deism · deist · deistic · deistical · deistically · deities · deity · deject

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEIXIS

aerotaxis · anatexis · major axis · minor axis · neutral axis · optic axis · parataxis · phototaxis · phylaxis · phyllotaxis · polar axis · principal axis · sparaxis · stereotaxis · synaxis · tachyphylaxis · the Axis · x-axis · y-axis · z-axis

Synonyms and antonyms of deixis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «deixis» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DEIXIS

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

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

Translator English - Chinese

指示语
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

deixis
570 millions of speakers
en

English

deixis
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

deixis
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

deixis
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

дейксис
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

deixis
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

deixis
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

deixis
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Deixis
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Deixis
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

直示
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

deixis
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Deixis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

deixis
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

deixis
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

दीिक्सिस
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

işaret zamirleri
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

deissi
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

deiksa
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

дейксис
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

deixis
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δείξη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Deixis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

deixis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

deixis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of deixis

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEIXIS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of deixis
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «deixis».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about deixis

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEIXIS»

Discover the use of deixis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to deixis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Here and There: Cross-linguistic Studies on Deixis and ...
This volume presents and discusses deictic systems of both Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages, including Russian, Czech, Spanish, German (standard and dialect), Hungarian, Chinese, Japanese, Hausa, Swahili, Hopi, Eipo, Tolai, ...
Jürgen Weissenborn, Wolfgang Klein, 1982
2
Grounding: The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference
This compilation of invited contributions, gathering an international collection of cognitive and functional linguists, offers an outline of original empirical work carried out in grounding theory.
Frank Brisard, 2002
3
Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Judith F. Duchan, Gail A. Bruder, Lynne E. Hewitt, 2012
4
Deixis, Grammar, and Culture
This study reviews some of the literature supporting vocabulary connections, hypotheses for other connections, and critical views of this type of hypothesis.
Revere Dale Perkins, 1992
5
Deixis and Information Packaging in Russian Discourse
They introduce new participants, signal changes in thematic structure, bracket topical units, and mark the relative status of information. The book is written with both descriptive and theoretical goals.
Lenore A. Grenoble, 1998
6
Deixis and Alignment: Inverse Systems in Indigenous ...
This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered).
Fernando Zúñiga, 2006
7
Deixis - Communication Could Never Exist Without Taking ...
Telling him that he shouldn't have done what he did, he told me that he didn't do it intentionally." In this little story, "this," "what he did," and "it" all refer to the action of the boy killing the duck with a piece of bread.
Benjamin Türksoy, 2013
8
Deixis and demonstratives in Oceanic languages
The systems of deixis and demonstratives in the Oceanic languages represented in the contributions to this volume illustrate the fascinating complexity of spatial reference in these languages.
Gunter Senft, 2004
9
Pragmatics
The remarks in this section only sketch out a province for which a proper theory of discourse deixis might provide an account. The scope, as indicated, may be very large, ranging from the borders of anaphora to issues of topic/comment ...
Stephen C. Levinson, 1983
10
Deixis and Distance
As the information system in our modern technology world becomes more and more important, the research about language and especially commuication has grown to a major element of today’s scholarship.
Tanja Winterberg, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEIXIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term deixis is used in the context of the following news items.
1
10 consells per millorar les fotos familiars
Per esbrinar-ho el millor és que et deixis guiar per algun objecte que sàpigues que està completament paral·lel a terra, com la taula. 7. Compte ... «EL PAÍS Catalunya, Dec 14»
2
Lisa Robertson's Cinema of the Present, reviewed: So nice you read …
Linguists use the term “deixis” to refer to words that, while grammatically legible, rely on contextual information for their full understanding. «National Post, Dec 14»
3
Nouveaux investissements pour le FCPR Fonds Entrepreneurial 06 …
... Télécom ParisTech et ESA BIC (Agence Européenne Spatiale), la BPI France, Microsoft BizSpark Plus et le laboratoire de recherche DEIXIS ... «Invest in Côte d'Azur, Oct 14»
4
The Nuts and Bolts of Nuclear Stewardship
As an article at Deixis Magazine explains, each part of the structure is made up of numerous subcomponents, and these are held together with ... «HPCwire, Sep 14»
5
How's the Mood-Board?
An equally insistent use of 'deixis' also offers the possibility of resolved meaning further in, or beyond the text, but this also never arrives. «The Fortnightly Review, Jul 14»
6
Charles J. Fillmore (1929-2014)
... 1999), both in Language; and the seminal Lectures on deixis (1975), which helped jump-start the field of linguistic pragmatics. Within his own research areas, ... «UC Berkeley, Feb 14»
7
Literature Without Style
The deixis, in particular the combination of dropped articles and ... in a language, for example, with different rules of deixis; some is lost simply ... «The New York Review of Books, Nov 13»
8
New Zealand mudsnails found in Chehalis River
The mudsnails were found by Edward Johannes of Deixis Consultants, and Stephanie Clark with Invertebrate Identification Australasia, along ... «KXRO Newsradio, Sep 13»
9
Why I Love Remember Me (but I want it to fail)
The glitchy orchestral soundtrack creates a skewed sense of deixis as you begin to mistrust your surroundings and yourself. Some reviewers ... «Destructoid, Jun 13»
10
Google photo search learns to recognise flowers, other concepts
... is capable of making sense of temporal deixis (basically, it can understand descriptions of time relative to context, rather than just hard dates). «Wired.co.uk, May 13»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Deixis [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/deixis>. Apr 2024 ».
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