Discourse Deixis
Definition:
Discourse deixis is deictic reference to a portion of a discourse relative to the speaker's current “location” in the discourse.
Examples:
(English)
Use of this to refer to a story one is about to tell in:
Reference to Chapter 7 of a book by means of in the next chapter or in the previous chapter, depending on whether the reference is made from Chapter 6 or 8.
Use of this in a creaky-voiced utterance of:
Source:
62–63, 85, 89
667-668
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.