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deictic shift theory: a standalone construct

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the theory that readers of narrative relocate their deictic centre into the story world, so here, now and I are read from a character's viewpoint.

In pragmatics, deictic shift theory refers to the theory that readers of narrative relocate their deictic centre into the story world, so here, now and I are read from a character's viewpoint. This meaning comes from Duchan (1995) in Deixis in narrative.[1]

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character4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs deixis1 fields · 3 citationsanchor · a standalone construct narrative5 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs

References

Duchan, J. F., & Hewitt, L. E. (1995). Deixis in narrative. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 9780805814637

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