Deictic Expressions and their Contribution to Create a Viewpoint in Discourse

Deixis, Person Deictic, Temporal Deictic, Spatial Deictics, Vocative Element.

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  • Mariam Albadi
    mariamalbadi80@gmail.com
    Assistant Professor of Narrative and Literary Criticism, Arabic Department, University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman
May 12, 2023

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his paper provides an overview of the main three deictic expression categories, which are: person deictics, temporal deictics, and spatial deictics. It will explain their forms, meaning and their relationship to the speech reference. It will argue that there are a certain class of expressions in Arabic which can be considered in their linguistics usage as spatial deixis. This class of words is known as ‘‘The Vocative/ Call Elements’’ (أدوات النداء). Therefore, this paper attempts to answer these questions: What is a deictic expression? What is a deictic centre? What are The Vocative Elements in Arabic? How can they be considered as a category of linguistics deictic expression? and how can a deictic expression be applied to create a particular point of view in discourse? These main points will be considered through the discussion. A variety of different examples will be quoted or created alongside the theoretical discussion in order to clarify these mentioned points.