pragmatics-referring experessions
DESCRIPTION
You'll have a good chance to internalize the features about referring expressions if you are willing to obtain this file :)TRANSCRIPT
The Relationship between Reference and
Sense• Reference Concrete
It can be proved by the thing in the real world and only one step to prove it.
• Sense AbstractIt does not have a real object and we have to imagine and compare to our experience.
Sense and Reference are both parts of meaning but,
what relation is there between them?
THE RELATION BETWEEN
SENSE AND REFERENCE
DEIXIS (DEICTIC EXPRESSIONS)Deixis is reference by means of an expression whose interpretation is relative to the context of the utterance, such as
• who is speaking
• the time of speaking
• the place of the speaking
TYPES OF DEIXIS(DEICTIC EXPRESSIONS)
1. Personal deixis (deictics):· First person (Speaker: I, we, they)· Second person (hearer: you, he, she, it)
Eg : • I am going to the movies.• Would you like to have dinner?• She wants to get the best score in the final
exam.
2. Place (spatial) deixis:– Determiners: this/that– Adverbs (intransitive prepositions):
here/there“You should bring warm clothes, the weather is cold there”
“You should bring warm clothes, the weather is cold there”
“I took many beautiful places
there.”
“I took many beautiful places
there.”
Deictic Word
3. Temporal /Time deixis (deictics):– Adverbs: now/then; this year/that year; at
this/that point; yesterday; two days ago; last week.
– Tomorrow, Then...
• Eg:
“Tomorrow is Sunday”"I saw him last week"