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Pragmatic Functions of Anti-Pre-Emptive Use of Person Deixis and Pre-Emptive Use of Social Deixis in Chinese
School of Foreign Languages, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics·Volume 03 (2013)·Pages 305–307·Published 6 November 2013·DOI10.4236/ojml.2013.34038
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Abstract
Pre-emptive use of deixis involves speakers’ psychological tendency towards using deixis to pre-empt the non-deictic ways of referring to the relevant person, time or place, while anti-pre-emptive use of deixis refers to the phenomenon of non-deictic words substituting deixis. Both the pre-emptive use and anti-pre-emptive use of deixis produce significant pragmatic functions in language communication. This paper discusses the anti-pre-emptive use of person deixis and the pre-emptive use of social deixis in Chinese and concludes that their pragmatic functions are of the same nature.
KeywordsPre-Emptive UseAnti-Pre-Emptive UsePerson DeixisSocial DeixisPragmatic Function
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