Indication: A Study of Demonstratives, Articles, and Other 'Indicaters'

Collinson, W. E.; Morris, Alice V.

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“…And thus the human language of gestures is in a psychological sense primary" (Wittgenstein, 2005, p. 46, original emphasis). Collinson (1937) summarized the idea of pointing as a semiotic primitive plainly: "The simplest and most universal form of communication is gesture and the simplest kind of gesture is the act of pointing" (p. 17). Remarks like these belong to a long tradition in which pointing has been considered "ontologically primeval" (Haviland, 1993, p. 12).…”

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Fifteen ways of looking at a pointing gesture

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2023

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The human pointing gesture may be viewed from many angles. On a basic description, it is an intentional movement, often of the hand, by which one person tries to direct another’s attention toward something; it is, in short, a bodily command to look. But this definition is only a start. Pointing may also be seen as a semiotic primitive, a philosophical puzzle, a communicative workhorse, a protean universal, a social tool, a widespread taboo, a partner of language, a part of language, a fixture of art, a graphical icon, a cognitive prop, a developmental milestone, a diagnostic window, a cross-species litmus test, and an evolutionary stepping-stone. A tour of these fifteen ways of looking at pointing reveals the diverse dimensions of one of our most unassuming, ubiquitous behaviors. It also reveals a series of dualities that make the gesture especially compelling: it is at once natural and irreducibly cultural; simple yet put to sophisticated purposes; by turns salient and subtle; and is—in its prototypical form, with the index finger extended—special in some ways and not so special in others. These tensions in part explain why pointing has been treated so widely and variously across disciplines. But there is also, I propose, a deeper reason: The gesture embodies our distinctively human preoccupation with attention.

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Fifteen ways of looking at a pointing gesture

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“…Tupa concept) language aids, in particular actical aids, understood broadly as such language elements "whose meaning includes the identification of an object through its relation to the speech act itself and its participants" (Arutyunova & Paducheva, 1985). Deixis implements the universal property of the language system -its index (Collinson, 1937). On this basis, a typology of deixis is built (Buhler, 1982).…”

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Genre-forming function of factic elements of language in Russian and Tatar lyrics

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The article identifies linguistic "initial phenomena" of lyrical genres, forming the core of genre identity of the work and having universal character - supernatural and supranational. It has been concluded that the non-literary "other" in relation to which artistic speech, first of all its lyrical subsystem taken in the aspect of its genre structure, is self-determined, is deixis. On the basis of the analysis of the philosophical lyrics of Russian and Tatar poets of the XIX-XX centuries, it has been established that the genre of "definitions" goes back to the deuttic elements of language. In Russian and Tatar literatures it has similar features: the focus on the process of knowledge (dominance of the hermeneutic code), the reflection in the subject architect of the works of the processes of identification and self-identification of the lyrical subject, the use of tropical and mythopoetic figurative "languages." At the same time in Tatar poetry this genre has distinctive features related to the specifics of the manifestation of personal origin in Tatar literature, its characteristic forms of authorship, procedures of meaning inherent in this type of culture.

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“…Therefore, 'determiner' is not very viable as a universal natural class". La conclusion qu'on peut tirer de ces observations, que formulaient déjà Collinson et Morris (1937 ! ), est que les langues dépourvues d'article recourent à d'autres outils, y compris syntaxiques, c'est-à-dire sans qu'il leur soit automatiquement besoin par exemple de marquer la définitude par le démonstratif.…”

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“…Ajoutons enfin que cette relation dialectique entre taxinomie des formes et identification des opérations sémantiques a conduit certains auteurs à opérer des mises en correspondance plus transversales que les précédentes, lesquelles ne portent que sur des morphèmes du groupe nominal. Sous le titre Indication, Collinson et Morris (1937) avaient ainsi élargi l'étude des morphèmes de détermination au-delà du groupe nominal, pour s'intéresser par exemple aux adverbes de lieu somewhere, anywhere, everywhere. -On observera que ces adverbes sont du reste non seulement justifiables d'une analyse en termes de définitude et d'indéfinitude, mais aussi en termes de couverture (continue ou discontinue) d'un espace, c'est-à-dire selon des critères voisins de ceux qui ont été utilisés pour l'article (voir ci-dessus).…”

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Genre-forming function of factic elements of language in Russian and Tatar lyrics

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