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What is discourse deixis? http://www-01.sil.org/linguistics/glossaryoflinguisticterms/WhatIsDiscou...

Definition
Discourse deixis is deictic reference to a portion of a discourse relative to the speaker's current
“location” in the discourse.
Examples (English)

Use of this to refer to a story one is about to tell in:

I bet you haven’t heard this story.

Reference to Chapter 7 of a book by means of in the next chapter or in the previous chapter,
depending on whether the reference is made from Chapter 6 or 8.

Use of this in a creaky-voiced utterance of:

This is what phoneticians call a creaky voice.

Source: Levinson 1983 63, 85


Kinds
Here are some kinds of discourse deixis:
What is switch reference?
What is token-reflexive deixis?

Generic
Discourse deixis is a kind of
What is deixis?

Sources
Levinson 1983 62–63, 85, 89
Lyons 1977b 667–668

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What is discourse deixis? http://www-01.sil.org/linguistics/glossaryoflinguisticterms/WhatIsDiscou...

In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson
(editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
In bookshelf: Linguistics

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