Referential_indexicality_.28deixis.29 Indexicality

in linguistic anthropology, deixis defined referential indexicality — is, morphemes or strings of morphemes, organized closed paradigmatic sets, function individuate or single out objects of reference or address in terms of relation current interactive context in utterance occurs. . deictic expressions distinguished, on 1 hand, standard denotational categories such common nouns, potentially refer member of whole class or category of entities: these display purely semantico-referential meaning, , in peircean terminology known symbols. on other hand, deixis distinguished particular subclass of indexicality in general, may nonreferential or altogether nonlinguistic (see below).

in older terminology of otto jespersen , roman jakobson, these forms called shifters. silverstein, introducing terminology of peirce, able define them more referential indexicals.