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DEICTIC WORD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs
Example:
words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message
Synonyms:
deictic; deictic word
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("deictic word" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
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