What Deixis is?

Deixis => Greek, Pointing

Deixis => an expression to point something

In linguistics, deixis refers to the phenomenon wherein understanding the meaning of certain words and phrases in an utterance requires contextual information.

in other defenition, Deixis is reference by means of an expression whose interpretation is relative to the (usually) extralinguistic context of the utterance, such as

• who is speaking
• the time or place of speaking
• the gestures of the speaker
• the current location in the discourse

The Example of Deictic expression:

• I
• you
• now
• there 
• that
• the following
• tenses

Types of Deixis

1. Person Deixis
2. Place Deixis
3. Time Deixis
4. Discourse Deixis
5. Social Deixis