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HistoryOfEnglish » FocusAndContent » IdentifyingCentralProblems » Pragmatics » Deixis-AnIntroduction » DifferentUsagesOfDeixis » DeicticSymbolicUsage


2.2. Deictic symbolic usage:


Henry IV, Part II, Scene 2
Lord Chief Justice: Well, I am loath to gall a new-heal'd wound.
day's service at Shrewsbury hath a little gilded over your
night's exploit on Gadshill. You may thank th' unquiet time
your quiet o'erposting that action.

In this case that is used symbolically. The addressee must only know the basic spatio-temporal frame to understand the speaker.


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