Deixis

The usage of deixis is prominent in conversations. Therefore the analysis of deixis occurrence will be presented in this paper on the basis of selected dialogues from the 1935 film titled The Night at The Opera. The scene takes place in a restaurant. Waiter: Paging Mr. Driftwood. Mr. Driftwood. Driftwood (D): Do me a favor and stop yelling my name all over this restaurant. The situational context of the speech act is implied by the use of spatial deixis in a form of a demonstrative pronoun this. Due to the usage of such an expression one may assume that the dialogue takes place in a restaurant where both man are present, as pronoun this indicated the close distance between the mentioned place and to the speaker. The interpersonal context of…

FACE, POLITENESS AND SOCIAL DEIXIS IN SOCIAL INTERACTIONS. When living within a society, we perform different social activities which are recognizable by other individuals or groups that are part of the same society. These activities can be done individually (reading a book, getting dressed) or collectively (a family reunion, a business meeting) but always keeping in mind that they are done by taking into consideration directly or indirectly other members of the community in order to have…

critical is was that the work be finished and ready for her to present. Unfortunately, every direct speech act Corene uses still does not get her the results she seeks. Another direct speech act Corene implements is the use of temporal deixis, or “clock time. (Yule, 1996, p. 14) In this case, temporal deixis is used to show a sense of urgency. Corene tells Martin that she “really needed [the work] for this morning as [she] emphasized yesterday.” (Reynolds, 2012, 1:00) Not only does Corene…

The result stated that the American web pages have a higher level of formality than the British web pages and there is connection between the level of formality in the websites and market sector. The other researcher, Heylighen & Dewaele (1999) has found that the most fundamental and most universal dimension of stylistic variation is formality. They reviewed from several factors like three personality variables, they are gender, introversion and level of education, that correlate with formality.…

vocabularies in medical interviews or medical communication can be explained in terms of lexical occurrence (Adegbite and Odebunmi 2006). Lexical choice can be considered as the reflection of culture. Therefore, it is important to examine the classification in language to bring out different ideologies embedded between the lines (Weiwei and Weihua 2015). The lexical selection related to the selected extract are explained by using plane word, technical word, affirmity and negatives. Plane…