Lectures on Deixis
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"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 there, now, 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