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Pragmatics
Linked via "context"
Context and Deixis
Pragmatics is intrinsically linked to context, which is often subdivided into linguistic context (co-text) and situational context. Deixis (or deixis) represents the most direct linguistic manifestation of context dependence. Deictic expressions—such as pronouns (I, you), temporal adverbs (now, later), and spatial adverbs (here, there)—require contextual anchoring to derive their reference.
The concept of the Indexical Center ($C…