Receiving Time
Receiving Time
Receiving time is the time at which an addressee hears or reads a message.
This time may be the deictic center for expressions of time deixis .
- In the following utterance, the time referred to by today is the receiving time:
- This programme was recorded last Wednesday, April 1st, to be relayed today.
Page/s: 54, 62, 73–74
Source: Levinson 1983
Levinson, Stephen C. 1983.Pragmatics. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University.
Source: Fillmore 1975
Fillmore, Charles J. 1975.Santa Cruz lectures on deixis: 1971. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club.
Related terms
- RT⇆ Addressee
- RT⇆ Deictic Center
- RT⇆ Time Deixis
- ExactMatch: https://glossary.sil.org/term/receiving-time
