'deictic' in Consider David Foster Wallace | Bookmarker

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(adjective) showing or pointing out directly / Deictic terms are words whose meaning shifts depending on the point of view of the speaker

in which the deictic element "here" assumes a double meaning and points both to the referred scene and the insertion's locutionary act itself

—p.163 "That is Not Wholly True" Notes on Annotation in David Foster Wallace's Shorter Fiction (and Non-Fiction) (156) missing author

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