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Zhang, Q. (1994). On pre-emptiveness of deictic expressions. Modern Foreign Languages, 2, 6-12.

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• TITLE: Pragmatic Functions of Anti-Pre-Emptive Use of Person Deixis and Pre-Emptive Use of Social Deixis in Chinese

  AUTHORS: Yu Zhang

  KEYWORDS: Pre-Emptive Use; Anti-Pre-Emptive Use; Person Deixis; Social Deixis; Pragmatic Function

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, Vol.3 No.4, November 5, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Pre-emptive use of deixis involves speakers’ psychological tendency towards using deixis to pre-empt the non-deictic ways of referring to the relevant person, time or place, while anti-pre-emptive use of deixis refers to the phenomenon of non-deictic words substituting deixis. Both the pre-emptive use and anti-pre-emptive use of deixis produce significant pragmatic functions in language communication. This paper discusses the anti-pre-emptive use of person deixis and the pre-emptive use of social deixis in Chinese and concludes that their pragmatic functions are of the same nature.