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Definition of Deictic word
1. Noun. A word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs. "Words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deictic Word
Literary usage of Deictic word
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"Originally the word the was probably a deictic word similar to our that: it was
used attributively with a noun; in time, however, it came to be used ..."
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