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Question: Circle all of the deictic words in the sentences below, and explain which type of the deictic word is.

Sentence:

Two days ago, our dog was found five blocks away. Currently, he is sleeping silently upstairs, and we are hoping he doesn't disappear again.

Explanation:

2. I have made a slight change to Exercise Set 4; the revised version is now posted. The change is very small: in question 2, I have replaced the word quiet/ with silently. The only reason I have made this change is because I think it will be easier for you to decide whether or not silently is a deictic word 3. There is something about deictic words that I should have mentioned in Tuesday' s class, but did not. Third-person pronouns may be either deictic or anaphoric. If they are coreferential with an NP introduced earlier in the discourse, they are anaphoric. Otherwise, they are deictic. Deictic use of third person pronouns often involves pointing or gesturing: so if I pointed to somebody and said ve seen him before", that use of him would be deictic rather than anaphoric. (This is discussed briefly near the bottom of page 188 in the textbook, though the textbook authors use the terms bound and free which we did not introduce in class.) When you are answering question 2 on Exercise Set 4, assume that each third person pronoun has its most natural interpretation. So if the context makes it clear that a pronoun is probably being used anaphorically, assume that it is in fact being used anaphorically (even if it is technically possible for it to be used deictically) 4. If you are asked to circle the deictic words in a sentence like Leslie will leave next week, just circle next. Don' t circle next week as a unit, and don' t circle both next and weekindividually

Explanation / Answer

Answer 2.

Deictics refers to the use of words like this, that, these, those, now, then that point to the time, place, or situation in which a speaker is speaking. Thus, in the given sentence the following words are deictics: two, our, five, blocks, our, currently, he , we, again.

( note: anaphora means referring to something within the text, whereas deixis is referring to something outside the text, something in the real world)

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