Symbolic Usage
Symbolic Usage
Symbolic usage is the use of a deictic expression in such a way that its interpretation depends only on general knowledge of the extralinguistic situation, rather than on physical (visual, and so forth) monitoring of it.
- This city is really beautiful.
- We can’t afford a holiday this year.
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Source: Levinson 1983
Levinson, Stephen C. 1983.Pragmatics. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University.
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Source: Fillmore 1975
Fillmore, Charles J. 1975.Santa Cruz lectures on deixis: 1971. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club.
Related terms
- RT⇆ Deixis
- RT⇆ Gestural Usage
- ExactMatch: https://glossary.sil.org/term/symbolic-usage
