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    EXERCISES FOR LECTURE 1: Context, Deixis

    Exercise 1: Identify context.

    • “Dispatcher: 911 What's the nature of your emergency?

    • Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart”

    • Dispatcher: Is this her first child?

    • Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband!

    Exercise 2: Correct mistakes in the following sentences.

    1. In spatial deixis, the proximal forms are ‘I’ and ‘you’. The distal forms are ‘he, she, it’.

    Each person in a conversation shifts from being ‘I’ to being ‘you’ occasionally.

    2. “here” is distal form. “there” is promixal form.

    3. Location from speaker’s perspective sometimes refers to physical location. This is called

    deictic projection.

    4. “to begin with, first, next, in the following paragraph, last but not least” are temporal deixis.

    Exercise 3: Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F).

    1. Deixis is clearly a form of interpreting that is tied to the speaker’s context.

    2. People only use “then” as a distal form in the past tense.

    3. “Sunday, November 9th” is a form of deictic temporal reference.

    4. People use temporal deixis with the aim of politeness in communication.

    5. The speaker and listener have to share the same context in order to be interpreted
    correctly.
    Exercise 4: Identify deictic expressions in the following sentences

    1. He(person) will go (spatial) there (spatial) with me (person).

    2. They(person) tried (temporal) to hurt me (per), but (discoursal) he (per) came (spatial -

    temporal) to the rescue.

    3. She ( was (tem) sitting over there (sp).

    4. It (per) is raining out now tem, but I (per) hope when you per read this (person-spatial) it

    (person) will be sunny.

    5. I (person) enjoy living in this (spatial) city.

    Exercise 5: Decide types of deixis

    1. Sunday? Ok. I (per) will see you (per) then (spatial).

    2. Yesterday (temporal), she (person) went to school at 7am.

    3. I (person) had a holiday there (spatial) last summer (temporal).

    4. Here(spatial) is a good spot; it is too sunny over there (spatial).

    Here ở đây k phải là chủ ngữ (danh từ), nó là dạng đảo ngữ của câu

    Eercise 6. Matching

    1. Personal Deixis A. demonstrated by some proximal forms some verbs of motion and
    some location from speaker’s perspective

    2. Spatial Deixis B. Demonstrated by proximal form, temporal deictic expressions


    verb tense and distal form

    3. Temporal Deixis C. Demonstrated by the pronouns for first person ‘I’, second person
    ‘you’, and third person ‘he, she, it, they’

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