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Spatial Deixis in Spontaneous Expository Dialogue: Experimental Study
- Authors: Kiose M.I.1
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- Moscow State Linguistic University, Institute of Linguistics RAS
- Issue: No 3(897) (2025)
- Pages: 73-80
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/286494
- ID: 286494
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Abstract
Featuring the collected data of spontaneous expository dialogues, the study identifies the specific use of spatial deixis which helps construe the relative space within and beyond the communicative situation mediated by its subtypes, close and far. At present, little is known on the role of spatial deixis in modulating space in spontaneous dialogues. The study reveals four types of relative space as well as their distribution in dialogue. The results show the prevalence in the construal of relative space beyond the communicative situation as close, which proves the necessity to move the objects absent in the communicative situation closer to the interlocutor to develop the common ground.
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Maria Ivanovna Kiose
Moscow State Linguistic University, Institute of Linguistics RAS
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Email: maria_kiose@mail.ru
Doctor of Philology (Dr. habil.), Assistant Professor, Chief Researcher at Centre for Sociocognitive discourse studies, Moscow State Linguistic University, Leading Researcher at Laboratory of Multichannel communication, Institute of Linguistics
Russian Academy of Sciences
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