Talk:Deixis

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[edit] Technological deixis

Technological deixis? The definition out of context makes no sense; secondarily, is this definition used any place other than the one source cited? I move to strike it as an insignificant usage. Orbis 3 (talk) 00:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Linguistic and situational context

Deixis: linguistic and situational context
In my review sheet for my final this appears. What is the difference? --Nonymous-raz (talk) 13:50, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deixis vs. exophora

It's aggressively unclear, from the articles on both topics as they currently stand, how deixis relates to exophora. This article says that

Deictic words are bound to a context — either a linguistic or extralinguistic context — for their interpretation.

but also says that

Deixis is a type of exophora.

And exophora is dependence on extralinguistic context. Is the word "extralinguistic" being used in two different ways? Why should all deixis be exophora, and, why shouldn't all exophora be deixis? Pi zero (talk) 12:06, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

No, extralinguistic (what I added to the article) means "outside of language". Deixis is not strictly exophoric although it commonly is. I removed the reference to exophora. Obviously, examples are needed here to demonstrate how linguistic and extralinguistic contexts are used to determine what the referent of a deictic word may be.

This article is not very good (like many linguistic articles). I'm thinking about adding stuff to improve it.

The exophora article should probably be merged with the endophora article as they can be profitably discussed together. – ishwar  (speak) 16:44, 25 May 2008 (UTC)