Talk:Deixis

message: Technological deixis? The definition out of context makes no sense; secondarily, is this definition used any place other than the one source cited? I move to strike it as an insignificant usage.
Orbis 3 (talk) 00:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest that someone explain what technological deixis is, and giv examples, and add information about it to this article as appropriate.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 07:11, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Technological deixis

message: Deixis: linguistic and situational context
In my review sheet for my final this appears. What is the difference?
--Nonymous-raz (talk) 13:50, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Linguistic and situational context

message: 1. it's not a stub article, it definitely has more than that, 2. it lacks a Definition section with examples, so it's not better than start-class. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 21:52, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: On Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment#Quality_scale. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 21:53, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

text: No C. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 21:54, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

message: How is Deixis pronounced? Ndanielm (talk) 22:21, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: See en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deixis. Imerologul Valah (talk) 20:59, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: It says, "Although this article draws examples primarily from English..." I suggest adding more examples from languages other than English.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 07:10, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Other languages

message: According to the article,
:(2) those not directly involved (e.g. overhearers—those who hear the utterance but who are not being directly addressed),
is supposed to be exemplified by
:Would you like to have dinner?    
but this cannot be right. 
Since the title of the section is "traditional categories", I would think that definition (2) must be modified to correspond to the customary second person, i.e. to accord with the example. 84.227.228.178 (talk) 10:55, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apparent error 

message: Currently, there are two examples given of deictic projection:
"I am coming home now."
"I am not here; please leave a message."
Even after reading the explanatory details under each, I'm compelled to dispute both examples. 
In the first sentence, the use of "coming" is perfectly compatible with its general definition, "to move from further away to nearer to". It is not necessarily implied by the verb "to come" that an object or person be moving towards the speaker, evidenced by "your package should come tomorrow." Out of context, this could technically mean that I'll be receiving a package sent by you tomorrow, although (at least in my dialect of North American English) it would more commonly be interpreted to mean that you'll be receiving a package tomorrow from an unspecified sender. It's not necessary to conceive of "I am coming home now" as a metaphorical extension of myself to my home, because it still reads fine as meaning I'm coming towards my house.
In the second sentence (contextualized as a pre-recorded phone message), "here" refers to the location where I, the speaker, was when I recorded it. Again, there's no metaphorical extension of myself to my home when it plays, since it is spatially consistent when recorded (although it would make a nice example of temporal deixis!). Alternatively, upon the time of listening, one could think of the message itself as doing the speaking, in which case "here" still refers to the place from which it's being transmitted and there's no deixis involved at all.
If something is amiss with my analysis, do tell! I'm only here to learn. I just don't think either of the provided sentences quite exemplify what the section is purportedly talking about. Etymographer (talk) 07:32, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deictic projection examples?