Editing Deixis (section)

=== Discourse deixis ===
Discourse deixis, also referred to as text deixis, refers to the use of expressions within an utterance to refer to parts of the discourse that contain the utterance—including the utterance itself. For example, in "''This'' is a great story." ''this'' refers to an upcoming portion of the discourse.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Webber |first=Bonnie Lynn |date=June 1988 |title=Discourse Deixis: Reference to Discourse Segments |url=https://aclanthology.org/P88-1014 |journal=26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics |location=Buffalo, New York, USA |publisher=Association for Computational Linguistics |pages=113–122 |doi=10.3115/982023.982037}}</ref>

[[Switch reference]] is a type of discourse deixis, and a grammatical feature found in some languages, which indicates whether the argument of one clause is the same as the argument of the previous clause. In some languages, this is done through same subject markers and different subject markers. In the translated example "John punched Tom, and left-[same subject marker]," it is John who left, and in "John punched Tom, and left-[different subject marker]," it is Tom who left.<ref>{{Citation |last=Givón |first=T. |title=Switch Reference and Universal Grammar |date=1983 |volume=2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/switchreferenceu0000symp/page/51 51] |series=Typological Studies in Language |chapter=Topic continuity in discourse: The functional domain of switch-reference |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/switchreferenceu0000symp/page/51 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |doi=10.1075/tsl.2.06giv |isbn=978-9027228666}}</ref>

Discourse deixis has been observed in [[Computer-mediated communication|internet language]], particularly with the use of [[Iconicity|iconic]] language forms resembling arrows.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Collister|first=Lauren B.|date=March 2012|title=The discourse deictics ∧ and ← in a World of Warcraft community|journal=Discourse, Context & Media|volume=1|issue=1|pages=9–19|doi=10.1016/j.dcm.2012.05.002|url=http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/17348/4/32312revision-collister-discoursecontextandmedia-arrowandcarat-titlepag.pdf}}</ref>