The usage of deixis is prominent in conversations. Therefore the analysis of deixis occurrence will be presented in this paper on the basis of selected dialogues from the 1935 film titled The Night at The Opera.
The scene takes place in a restaurant.
Waiter: Paging Mr. Driftwood. Mr. Driftwood.
Driftwood (D): Do me a favor and stop yelling my name all over this restaurant.
The situational context of the speech act is implied by the use of spatial deixis in a form of a demonstrative pronoun this. Due to the usage of such an expression one may assume that the dialogue takes place in a restaurant where both man are present, as pronoun this indicated the close distance between the mentioned place and to the speaker. The interpersonal context of …show more content…
Without the context one does not know the reference of personal deixis expressed by personal pronoun he. The use of such a pronoun indicates only that that person is a male who is neither the speaker nor the addressee of the utterance. The interpretation of he is possible only when context is provided, then one finds out that he refers to a police officer. Verb come is an example of spatial deixis. Additionally, the verb serves as a temporal deixis because present tense and progressive aspect of the verb indicate that the man is moving towards the speaker at the moment of uttering the sentence. The expression around the other way may be recognized as spatial deixis as it indicates that the man chose a course of movement which is different from the one chosen by the speaker. These deixis are examples of symbolic deixis.
The scene takes place in the hall. A maintenance man is wiping Driftwood’s name off his office door.
D: What's all this? What's going on here?
Maintenance man (M): You mean, what's coming off here?
The spatial context of the speech act may be partly understood by the use of spatial deixis in a form of demonstrative pronoun this, which refers to something that takes place in a
The scene takes place in a restaurant.
Waiter: Paging Mr. Driftwood. Mr. Driftwood.
Driftwood (D): Do me a favor and stop yelling my name all over this restaurant.
The situational context of the speech act is implied by the use of spatial deixis in a form of a demonstrative pronoun this. Due to the usage of such an expression one may assume that the dialogue takes place in a restaurant where both man are present, as pronoun this indicated the close distance between the mentioned place and to the speaker. The interpersonal context of …show more content…
Without the context one does not know the reference of personal deixis expressed by personal pronoun he. The use of such a pronoun indicates only that that person is a male who is neither the speaker nor the addressee of the utterance. The interpretation of he is possible only when context is provided, then one finds out that he refers to a police officer. Verb come is an example of spatial deixis. Additionally, the verb serves as a temporal deixis because present tense and progressive aspect of the verb indicate that the man is moving towards the speaker at the moment of uttering the sentence. The expression around the other way may be recognized as spatial deixis as it indicates that the man chose a course of movement which is different from the one chosen by the speaker. These deixis are examples of symbolic deixis.
The scene takes place in the hall. A maintenance man is wiping Driftwood’s name off his office door.
D: What's all this? What's going on here?
Maintenance man (M): You mean, what's coming off here?
The spatial context of the speech act may be partly understood by the use of spatial deixis in a form of demonstrative pronoun this, which refers to something that takes place in a