Time Deixis
Time Deixis
Time deixis is reference to time relative to a temporal reference point. Typically, this point is the moment of utterance.
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Temporal adverbs
- now / then
- yesterday / today / tomorrow
- Distinctions in tense
Page/s: 682
Source: Lyons 1977b
Lyons, John. 1977b.Semantics. Volumes I, II. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Page/s: 54, 62
Source: Levinson 1983
Levinson, Stephen C. 1983.Pragmatics. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University.
Broader Terms
- BT↑ Deixis
Related terms
- RT⇆ Coding Time
- RT⇆ Receiving Time
- ExactMatch: https://glossary.sil.org/term/time-deixis
