Time and place deixis in language

I.Introduction………………………………………………………………………1

II.Theoretical preliminaries………………………………………………………...5
1.General presentation…………………………… ………………………...5
2.Deictic categories………………………………………………………….6
3.Deictic terms and teir usages……………………………………………...8

III.Chapter 1: Context  the role it plays in making meaning…………………….11
1.Interpreting utterances  a comlex process………………………………..11
1.1. Assigning sense in context……………………………………………11
1.2.Assigning reference in context………………………………….12
1.3.Making presupposition………………………………………….13
1.4.Deriving implicatures relying on context……………………….14
1.5.Drawing inferences……………………………………………...15
2.Context  a static or a dynamic concept?………………………………..16
2.1. Context as static………………………………………………………16
2.2.Context as dynamic…………………….……………………….17
3.Normal and abnormal context…………………………………………...22
4.Context of situation versus co-text………………………………………22
5.The principle of  local interpretation……………………………………..24
6.The principle of analogy………………………………………………25

IV.Chapter 2: Time diexis…………………………………………………………..26
1.Pure time deixis………………………………………………………. 26
2.Time deixis interacting with cultural measurements of time…………... 30
3.Time deixis interacting with calendrical reckoning of time……………….32
4.Now and then  deictic elements or markers?……………………..36
4.1.Now as a marker…………………………………………….. 37
4.2.Then as a marker………………………………………………41
5.Tense  a deictic category……………………………………………..45
5.1.The notions of time and tense……………………………………45
5.2.The English tenses……………………………………………….49
5.2.1.Present tense simple…………………………………...49
5.2.2.Past tense simple………………………………………53
5.2.3.Present perfect simple…………………………………56
5.2.4.Past perfect simple……………….……………………59
5.2.5.Future time……………………….……………………60
5.3.Similarities and differences between the English and Romanian tense systems…………………………………………………..63

V.Chapter 3: Place deixis…………………………………………………………..76
1.Pure place deixis……………………………………………………. 76
2.Place deixis interacting with non-deictic terms for spatial organization……………………………………………………………..77
3.Deictic motion verbs………………………….………………………….79

VI. Conclusions………………………………………………………………………85