deixis

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  The use of a word, such as a pronoun, to refer to something that must be identified from the wider context; a word used in such a way.
 * Deixis allows for economy of speech but introduces ambiguity when that speech is recorded.
 * 1) * 2006, Stephen C. Levinson, "Dexis", chapter 5 of The Handbook of Pragmatics, Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward (eds.), Wiley-Blackwell (ISBN 978-0631225485), page 97:
 * "en"
 * 1) * 2006, Stephen C. Levinson, "Dexis", chapter 5 of The Handbook of Pragmatics, Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward (eds.), Wiley-Blackwell (ISBN 978-0631225485), page 97:
 * "en"
 * 1) * 2006, Stephen C. Levinson, "Dexis", chapter 5 of The Handbook of Pragmatics, Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward (eds.), Wiley-Blackwell (ISBN 978-0631225485), page 97:
 * "en"

- For those who treat language as a generative system for objectively describing the world, deixis is a big black fly in the ointment. Deixis introduces subjective, attentional, intentional and, of course, context-dependent properties into natural languages.

Translations

 * Armenian: ցուցայնություն
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: deikto
 * Estonian: deiksis
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: deíxe
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 直示
 * Kazakh: дейксис
 * Korean: 직시(直示)
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: заах үүрэг, онцлох үүрэг
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Vietnamese: trực chỉ