Acknowledgements
Abstract
List of Figures
Chapter I Introduction
1.1 Significance of the Study
1.2 Research Objectives
1.3 Research Methodology
1.4 Organization of the Book
Chapter 2 Traditional Studies on Deixis
2.1 Main Contributions Made by Philosophers and Linguists
2.2 General Description of Deixis
2.2.1 Characteristics of Deixis
2.2.2 Definition of Deixis
2.2.3 Semantic Features of Deixis
2.2.4 Classification of Deixis
2.2.5 Usages of Deixis
2.3 Main Problems in the Traditional Studies
2.3.1 Lack of Nature-based Definition
2.3.2 Deictic Projection
2.3.3 Vague Relations between Categories of Deixis
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3 Cognitive Approaches to Deixis
3.1 Introduction: Epistemic Basis of Deixis
3.2 Epistemic Grounding
3.2.1 Grounding Elements and Their Deictic Nature
3.2.2 Types of Deictic Expressions
3.2.3 Cognitive Motivations of Deictic Expressions
3.3 Mental Spaces
3.3.1 Basic Ideas of Mental Spaces
3.3.2 Application of Mental Spaces in the Study of Deixis
3.4 Vantage Point and Field of Vision
3.5 Summary
Chapter 4 Toward a Cognitive Model of Deixis
4.1 Introduction: a Model Based on Situation and Cognition
4.2 Cognitive Motivations for the Model
4.2.1 Viewpoint and Viewpoint Shift
4.2.2 Conceptual Metaphor
4.2.3 Epistemic Models
4.3 Structure of the Model
4.3.1 A Three-axis Coordinate System
4.3.2 Vector and Vector Space
4.4 Summary
Chapter 5 Semantic Configuration of Deixis in the Model
5.1 Person Deixis
5.1.1 Person Deixis on the Space Axis
5.1.2 Deictic Projection between Persons
5.2 Space Deixis
5.2.1 Proximal/distal Relation on the Space Axis
5.2.2 Verbs of Motion
5.2.3 Prepositions with Deictic Use
5.3 Time Deixis
5.3.1 Time Deictic Terms
5.3.2 Tense
5.4 Modal Deixis
5.4.1 Degrees of Epistemic Distance
5.4.2 Real Conditions and Unreal Conditions
5.5 Summary
Chapter 6 Reconsideration of Deixis from the Perspective of Cognition
6.1 Definition and Semantic Features
6.2 Subjectivity and Grammatical Features
6.3 Deixis as a System and Its Model Structure
6.4 Summary
Chapter 7 Conclusions
7.1 Summary of the Study
7.2 Major Findings of the Study
7.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Studies
Bibliography
List of Figures
3-1 Field of vision: participant roles I and you
3-2 Field of vision: participant roles with two perspectives
3-3 Field of vision: demonstratives this and that
3-4 Field of vision: tenses
4-1 Structure of the cognitive model of deixis
5-1 Personal pronouns and vocatives
5-2 I is transferred into you
5-3 Third person is transferred into we
5-4 Demonstratives on the physical and psychological space axes
5-5 Verbs of motion
5-6 Configuration of I‘m coming
5-7 Came with home base as reference point
5-8 Come in a hypothetical space
5-9 Configuration of in front of
5-10 Prototypical time deicfic terms
5-11 Configuration of yesterday with other reference point
5-12 Present tense, past tense and future tense
5-13 Past future
5-14 Historical present and present tense in a hypothetical space
5-15 Present perfect
5-16 Past perfect
5-17 Future perfect
5-18 Epistemic distance of modals
5-19 Real and unreal conditions
5-20 Unreal condition in the present
5-21 Unreal condition in the past
5-22 Unreal condition in the future
6-1 System model of deixis