What is proximate person deixis?

Proximate person deixis is a third person deixis that distinguishes a referent that is more important at the present stage of the discourse from a referent that is less important.

• What is third person deixis?

Crystal 1980 247

Pei and Gaynor 1954 152

Hartmann and Stork 1972 168

Anderson, S. and Keenan 1985 262

Context for this page:

• Concept module: proximate person deixis
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): P
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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