Deictic Imaginings: Semiosis at Work and at Play

• Main Author: West, Donna E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 11
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Semantics.; Language and education.; Philosophy of Language.; Language Education.

This work represents the first integrated account of how deixis operates to facilitate points of view, providing the raw material for reconciling index and object. The book offers a fresh, applied philosophical approach using original empirical evidence to show that deictic demonstratives hasten the...