Aspects of time and place deixis in language


1.    INTRODUCTION
2.    THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES
2.1    General Presentation
2.2    Deictic Categories
2.3    Deictic Terms And Teir Usages
3.    CONTEXT - THE ROLE IT PLAYS IN MAKING MEANING
3.1    Interpreting Utterances - A Comlex Process
3.2    Assigning Sense In Context
3.2.1    Assigning Reference In Context
3.2.2    Making Presupposition
3.2.3    Deriving Implicatures Relying On Context
3.2.4    Drawing Inferences
3.3    Context - A Static Or A Dynamic Concept
3.4    Context As Static
3.4.1    Context As Dynamic
3.5    Normal And Abnormal Context
3.6    Context Of Situation Versus Co - Text
3.7    The Principle Of "Local Interpretation"
3.8    The Principle Of "Analogy"
4.    TIME DIEXIS
4.1    "Pure"Time Deixis
4.2    Time Deixis Interacting With Cultural Measurements Of Time
4.3    Time Deixis Interacting With Calendrical Reckoning Of Time
4.4    "Now" And "Then" - Deictic Elements Or Markers
4.4.1    "Now"As A Marker
4.4.2    "Then"As A Marker
4.5    Tense - A Deictic Category
4.5.1    The Notions Of Time And Tense
4.5.2    The English Tenses
4.5.2.1    Present Tense Simple
4.5.2.2    Past Tense Simple
4.5.2.3    Present Perfect Simple
4.5.2.4    Past Perfect Simple
4.5.2.5    Future Time
4.5.3    Similarities And Differences Between The English And Romanian Tense Systems
5.    PLACE DEIXIS
5.1    "Pure" Place Deixis
5.2    Place Deixis Interacting With Non - Deictic Terms For Spatial Organization
5.3    Deictic Motion Verbs
6.    CONCLUSIONS
7.    BIBLIOGRAPHY