Deixis

In Greek etymology it means pointing. Deixis is a reference to a person, object or event, which relies on the
situational context; first and second personal pronouns, demonstrative articles and expressions of time and place.
Types of Deixis:
Person Deixis: Pronouns are person deixis where the speaker is always the deictic center.
Social Deixis: Indicates the social position by addressing to person using formal or informal condition like Tu/vous.
Spatial Deixis: serve to locate the speaker in relation to space in his/her physical context (come and go are a place
deixis)
*Proximal deixis: here, this
*Distal Deixis: There, that
Temporal Deixis: (past, present, future)
(Now, then, yesterday, tomorrow tense system)
Ps: The adverbs can refer to different terms of time
Ex: she is married now (extended time)
I am speaking now (exact time of speaking)
Now (the very moment)
Discourse Deixis: It serves to link the sentence to the previous discourse (in spoken or written discourse)
(Above, below the following)
Ex: that was the best story I have ever heard
Anaphoric: expression to preceding section of discourse
Anaphoric: expression to following section of discourse