Here and there : cross-linguistic studies on deixis and demonstration

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Here and there : cross-linguistic studies on deixis and demonstration

[edited by] Jürgen Weissenborn & Wolfgang Klein

（Pragmatics & beyond : an interdisciplinary series of language studies, III:2/3）

J. Benjamins, 1982

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English and German

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Deixis - the rooting of utterances in the speech situation - is one of the most salient universals of natural language. The ways in which different languages link utterances to pragmatic factors such as speech time, speech place, and speech participants show a rich variation. This makes deixis a particular fruitful domain for the study of universals, language comparison, and the relationship between language and reality. This volume presents and discusses deictic systems of both Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages, including Russian, Czech, Spanish, German (standard and dialect), Hungarian, Chinese, Japanese, Hausa, Swahili, Hopi, Eipo, Tolai, Diyari. Focus is on spatial deixis, but other deictic and demonstrative expressions are treated as well.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction (by Weissenborn, Jurgen)
  • 2. Up/down, front/back, left/right. A contrastive study of Hausa and English (by Hill, Clifford)
  • 3. Da and the system of spatial deixis in German (by Ehrich, Veronika)
  • 4. Representations of local Ni-deixis in Swahili in Relation to Buhler's "Origo des Zeigfelds" (by Opalka, Hubertus)
  • 5. Some systems of spatial deixis in Papuan Languages (by Heeschen, Volker)
  • 6. Local Deixis in Tolai (by Mosel-Kreutzer, Ulrike)
  • 7. The system of local deixis in Spanish (by Hottenroth, Priska-Monika)
  • 8. On verb deixis in Hungarian (by Batori, Istvaan)
  • 9. Demonstrative pronouns in Russian and Czech-deixis and anaphora (by Hauenschild, Christa)
  • 10. Deixis and anaphora in German dialects: The semantics and pragmatics of two definite articles in dialectical varieties (by Hartmann, Dietrich)
  • 11. Some remarks on Japanese deictics (by Coulmas, Florian)
  • 12. Hopi Person deixis (by Malotki, Eckehart)
  • 13. Zur historischen Entwicklung der Personendeixis im Chinesischen (by Pasierbsky, Fritz)
  • 14. The deictic system of Diyari (by Austin, Peter)
  • 15. Contributors
  • 16. Index of Names
  • 17. Index of Subjects

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