Lectures on Deixis

Lectures on Deixis

Author
Charles Fillmore
Publication Year

"This short book contains the texts of lectures that Fillmore delivered in Santa Cruz in 1971, which have become milestones in linguistics. Fillmore gives a comprehensive view of deictic forms—those words whose meaning depends on context, such as therenow, or you—and his book pulls off the difficult trick of being both path-making for scholars in the field and accessible to non-specialists. Fillmore is interested primarily in deixis as a linguistic phenomenon, but it also plays a crucial, if knotty, role in literary forms of all sorts."

Recommended by Eric Falci, Associate Professor of English and author of Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010