'deictic' in The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies (Vol 1, Issue 5) | 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

deictics ("these guano-spotted buildings")

—p.115 Wallace and Description: The Inner Drama of the Observer (91) missing author

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