'deictic' in Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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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 other linguistics this particularizing function is taken over by the virtually wordless operation of the deictic -- the "this" or "that," the pointing at the otherwise ineffable specificity of the unique object in the here and now)

—p.228 THEORY: Immanence and Nominalism in Postmodern Theoretical Discourse (181) by Fredric Jameson

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deictic (en)

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson

deictic (en)

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson