Coding Time

Related terms

  • RT Deictic Center
  • RT Time Deixis
  • RT Utterance
Definition note

Coding time is the time of

  • an utterance, or
  • the writing of a message.
Discussion

Coding time may be used as the deictic center for expressions of time deixis.

Example note

(English)

In the following statement, the coding time is Wednesday, April 1st:

  • This programme is being recorded today, Wednesday April 1st, to be relayed next Thursday.

The coding time is also the deictic center for the statement.

(Fillmore 1975)

Bibliographic note 2
Page/s: 54,62, 74
Source: Levinson 1983

Levinson, Stephen C. 1983.Pragmatics. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University.

Page/s: 44
Source: Fillmore 1975

Fillmore, Charles J. 1975.Santa Cruz lectures on deixis: 1971. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club.