A Pragmatic Analysis of Time Deixis in Persian

زبانشناسی و گویش های خراسان

Article 2, Volume 2, Issue 2, October 2010   

Document Type: علمی - پژ‍وهشی

DOI: 10.22067/lj.v2i2.15901

Authors

Mohammad Amuzadeh Mahdiraji^* ; Fatemeh Bahrami

Abstract

Deicticity in language is an important issue that can be analyzed pragmatically. So the present paper aims to investigate the pragmatic aspects of time deictic terms in Persian and the way they are used by Farsi speakers. Much information which is transferred in speech has pragmatic aspects and relates to the certain context of situation and social context. One of the goals of this paper is to reveal the role of time deixis in transferring pragmatic concepts in context of situation that grammar is unable to explain exhaustively

Keywords

time deixis; co-text; context of situation; cultural context