Deixis

Keyword: Deixis


Article in Journal | Posted 03/11/2014
West, Donna E. (2011). Deictic use as a threshold for imaginative thinking: a Peircean perspective
This investigation traces the ontogeny of the use of “I” and how its symbolic use promotes imaginative thinking. Peirce's triadic system is contrasted with Vygotsky's binary system to...
Article in Journal | Posted 03/11/2014
Chang, Han-liang (2013). Cassirer, Benveniste, and Peirce on deictics and "pronominal" communication
For all his profound interest in Secondness and its manifestation in various kinds of indices, including deictics, Peirce rarely addresses the inter-pronominal relationships. Whilst the American...
Article in Journal | Posted 03/11/2014
West, Donna E. (2013). Cognitive and linguistic underpinnings of deixis am phantasma: Buhler's and Peirce's semiotic
This inquiry outlines Karl Bühler’s three kinds of deixis, focusing particularly on his most advanced use – deixis am phantasma (deictics to refer to absent referents). This use is of primary import...