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T. O. Adesanmi
shows that epitaphs achieve their philosophical significance with minimal deictic resources, drawing on spatial deixis to ground metaphysical claims about death in the reader’s lived experience of finitude … view of the above, this paper contributes to death discourse studies by showing how deixis operates simultaneously as a philosophical claim and a technology of reflection in African memorial discourse
Oladimeji Olaniyi and Onuche, Joshua Ene'Ojo
framework for identifying and interpreting the communicative functions of the psalmist’s utterances. Deixis, presupposition, implicature and relevance are employed as complementary pragmatic concepts to account for contextual reference, background