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Abstract

Deixis is of main interest to politicians of which they make use to encode in language their messages, goals, policies, ideologies…..etc. In other words, they communicate such things to their audience in a way that is not literally said or expressed. Deixis refers to contextual cues used to relate the language to the reality. The relation between language and reality can be held through the participants, the time when the action takes place, and the place where the action occurs. The main purpose of the paper is to explore how politicians have managed to convey their messages and beliefs through the use of deictic expressions. To achieve that, it is hypothesized that politicians are highly dependent upon deixis, and especially personal ones rather than the other kinds of deixis. The data to be under analysis is a speech by president Obama (2013). The model proposed is Yule (1996) to breakdown the data qualitatively and quantatively. The paper has found that deixis matters a lot to the politicians especially person deixis where it is used largely to encode the politicians' messages, ideas,…etc