Pragmatic Study of Deixis in Some Elegies

Abstract

ABSTRACT
This study offers justifications for some poet's use of deixis in their elegies. It is divided into an introduction which provides definitions for dsixis and its types. It studies the role of personal deixis in some elegies. It explains how the person deixis "you" and "he" are used interchangeably where proximity and distancy, presence and absence are directed by the world of illusion and reality. It also tackles the roles of other deixis in this field: place, time and social and how they participate in formation of the poet's movements between illusion and reality where again proximity and distancy, presence and and absence form the movements.