Based on the Discourse Space Theory, this research sought to analyze the deictics used in the political discourse. Drawing on three speeches of the American President Donald Trump, this research explored the types of deictics and the frequency of using each type in each of the three speeches. To achieve this purpose, qualitative and quantitative analyses were conducted. The AntConc 3.5.0w was used to calculate the frequency of using each deictic type. Then, the percentage and the number of each deixis per 1000 words were calculated to facilitate comparison between the frequency of using each type of deixis in Trump's three speeches. The results indicated that Trump employed different types of deixis including the personal, temporal, spatial, discourse and social deixis. However, the frequency of using each type varied from one speech to another. It was observed that the audiences influenced Trump's use of deixis. Finally, the elements of the space in each speech could be defined. People, entities and events were located on different positions on the spatial, temporal and modality axes of the Discourse Space Theory.

A news headline is an integral part of the journalistic article. Some journalists, intentionally or unintentionally, employ ambiguity when constructing news headlines. Ambiguity could have positive effects on the readers and motivate them to continue reading the news story. Conversely, it could also lead to misunderstanding and frustration. The current study is an attempt to identify the types of ambiguity, lexical, syntactic or pragmatic, that encourage the readers to go through the content of headline news story. For the purpose of this study, 25 ambiguous headlines were set in a two-fold questionnaire that was applied to 100 readers of Al-Ahram Weekly. The questionnaire investigated the readers' ability to accurately interpret each type of ambiguity. Also, it explored the psycholinguistic effect of each type of ambiguity on the readers' tendency to continue reading. The results revealed that the syntactic ambiguity was the most difficult type of ambiguity to be interpreted by the readers, while the pragmatic ambiguity was the easiest. Moreover, it was noted that the readers were inclined to continue reading the lexically ambiguous headlines more than any other type of ambiguity.