The analysis of
social deictics, in contrast, heavily draws on japanese data and only provides supplementary analyzes of english examples.
Deictic reference.
Deictic gesture
plus an action gesture.
The linguistic forms of this pointing are called
deictic expressions, deictic expressions, deictic markers or deictic words; they are also sometimes called indexicals.
Deictic function words
which are closely related to bodily gesture.
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