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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

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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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9 years, 2 months ago


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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10 months, 3 weeks ago


It killed it. The deictics are so vague. Nobody really knows what hurts or what helps.

—p.42 DEVIL’S BAIT (27) by Leslie Jamison
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1 year, 10 months ago


deictics ("these guano-spotted buildings")

—p.115 Wallace and Description: The Inner Drama of the Observer (91) missing author
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8 months, 2 weeks ago


Soon, you will not be you. You, like all of us, are a deictic case.

—p.301 THE NPC (281) by Gabrielle Zevin
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2 years, 1 month ago