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Linguistic Analysis and Discourse Studies Volume 24, Issue 2 (September 2024)pp. 1–21PDF of “Here Lies…”: Spatial Deixis, Embodied Finitude, and the Pragmatics of Existential Reflection in Nigerian Epitaphs
“Here Lies…”: Spatial Deixis, Embodied Finitude, and the Pragmatics of Existential Reflection in Nigerian Epitaphs
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