Deixis as a symbolic phenomenon

Children's early development of demonstrative use emanates directly from indexical gestures, namely, eye gaze, pointing, prehensile reaching, and giving exchanges. These indexical gestures become social in that they are joint attentional, and mark the inception of deictic use. Although children...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Donna E. West
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2011-11-01
Series:Linguistik Online
Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/321