Temporal Deixis-presentation.pptx

It is a presentation of temporal deixis through analysis of Emma Watson's interview.

1. Temporal Deixis Analysis of Emma Watson’s conversation with Jimmy Fallon (2017) Tenses, Time adverbials

2. Deixis (Levinson S. C., 1995)- ” Deixis is an important field studied in pragmatics, semantics and linguistics. Deixis refers to the phenomenon wherein understanding the meaning of certain words and phrases in an utterance requires contextual information. Words or phrases that require contextual information to convey any meaning are deictic” .

3. Deixis (Cont) Deixis is reference by means of an expression whose interpretation is relative to the (usually) extra linguistic context of the utterance, such as: ƒ who is speaking ƒ the time or place of speaking ƒ the gestures of the speaker, or ƒ the current location in the discourse

4. Deictic Expression A deictic expression is a word or phrase that points out the different meaning the words have in various situations. Without a pragmatic approach, the interpretation of an utterance would be impossible to understand, therefore deictic expressions are crucial and it involves the relationship between the structure of languages and the contexts in which they are used. A word that depends on deictic indicators is called a  deictic word  , and is bound to a context. Hence, words that are deictic hold a denotational meaning which varies depending on time and/or place, and a fixed semantic meaning (Levinson, 1983).

5. Categories of Deixis Stephen C. Levinson pointed out five types of deixis ; Person Place Temporal Discourse Social

6. Temporal Deixis   It refers to an event of an utterance, which takes place any time relative to the speaking time and is, therefore, represented by tense, time adverbials and sometimes by spatial prepositions such  as in the evening, at midnight, on time  . The location of an event referred to and represented by time and tense constitutes the deictic centre in the utterance of a speaker.

7. Temporal Deixis  Expressions In English, temporal deixis is expressed by adverbs of time and tense markers on the verb. There are two tenses in English that are morphologically marked on verbs. They are the present and the past. To refer to events taking place in the future English uses modal verbs, will or shall and the phrasal modal be going to. Another means of expressing the future is using a present tense verb but attaching an adverb of time to indicate the future.

8. This presentation aims to analyse a section of interview given by Emma Watson at “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in 2017. In this video, the interlocutors recall their previous meeting in order to induce laughter in the audience and to create a rapport with the celebrity guest.

9. Findings: Temporal Deictics Referents No. of times Present Tense Proximal time span 15 Past Tense Distal time span 28 Future Tense Distal time span Adverbs of time Provides further context for the time at which utterances were produced 13

10. Detailed Description of Findings: Tenses: Present Simple: Excerpt # 1 Jimmy Fallon - You go , "When you get kids, you trick them." And I go , "That 's Jimmy Kimmel.“ Excerpt # 2 Jimmy Fallon - (overlap) I don't mind. I get that all the time. I get Jimmy Kimmel all the --but then...

11. Present Continuous: Excerpt # 1 Jimmy Fallon- Thank you so much for com ing back to our show. Is it -- Is it all flush ing back to you? Excerpt # 2 Jimmy Fallon - so, please, thank you for com ing back and I appreciate that.

12. Past Simple: Excerpt # 1 Emma Watson - And there was just silence. Excerpt # 2 Jimmy Fallon - and I just gave you a compliment, and then you said , "Before you continue..."

13. Past Continuous: Excerpt # 1 Emma Watson - You could tell that I was dy ing inside. Excerpt # 2 Emma Watson - And I was so keen to do a good job after hav ing ..

14. Past Perfect: Excerpt # 1 Emma Watson - We 'd never met before. Excerpt # 2 Emma Watson - You were so sweet. But then I feel like this show had a great vibe, cause everyone was in hysterics.

15. Time Adverbials: Excerpt # 1 Jimmy Fallon - (overlap) I don't mind. I get that all the time . I get Jimmy Kimmel all the --but then ... Excerpt # 2 Emma Watson (overlaps) -" Before you even start the interview...“ Excerpt # 3 Jimmy Fallon - [ Laughter ] - We don't ever want to embarrass our guests, so , please, thank you for coming back to our show and I appreciate that.

16. Conclusion: All of the words and phrases are temporal deictics because they “point” or “refers” to any time relative to the speaking time of the utterances and provides further temporal context which is usually represented by tense, time adverbials. Without a pragmatic approach, the interpretation of an utterance would be impossible to understand, therefore deictic expressions (temporal) are crucial and it involves the relationship between the structure of languages and the contexts in which they are used.