1. These are epiphany, presentification, and deixis . 2. There are three noun classes, two levels of deixis , and a possession and syntactic function. 3. The deixis system has a proximal / medial / distal and a non-demonstrative / demonstrative distinction. 4. Deixis is an important part of the way that we use language to point out entities in the world.5. Place deixis , also known as space deixis, concerns itself with the spatial locations relevant to an utterance. 6. Place deixis, also known as space deixis , concerns itself with the spatial locations relevant to an utterance. 7. Some cultures for example have elaborate systems of " social deixis ", systems of signalling social distance through linguistic means. 8. This type of social deixis is found in a variety of languages, but is especially common in South and East Asia. 9. Honorifics are a much more complex form of social deixis than T V distinctions, though they encode similar types of social information. 10. Vietnamese demonstratives ( markers of deixis ) all have the function of identifying a referent with respect to another contextual point or position.
