ENGL 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deixis, Construals
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Lecture 4 - space, time and perspective: the concept of deixis, literal understanding of space and time, figurative understanding of space and time. Deictic expressions: person deixis: i (speaker), you (hearer, place deixis: here/there, this/that, come/go, time deixis: now/then, discourse deixis: this/that, social deixis: sir, madam, you guys, those guys, etc. I drove the car to kits beach and left it there: (on the phone) is martha there, this finger, this campus, this planet, this friday, this week, he went/came home around midnight, this is/that was my explanation. Spatial orientation: up/down: an object with up/down orientation must be understood as typically oriented along the axis of gravity, front/back: humans and animals have a natural front/back orientation determined by primary source of perception. Sept 19, 2017: left/right: an object which can be viewed as having left/right orientation must also have the up/down and front/back orientation.
