Grammar. specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of one or more of the participants in an act of speech or writing, in the context of either an external situation or the surrounding discourse, as we, you, here, there, now, then, this, that, the former, or the latter.
noun
3.
Grammar. a deictic element.
Origin
1820-30; < Greekdeiktikós demonstrative, equivalent to deikt(ós) able to be proved, verbal adjective of deiknýnai to show, prove, point + -ikos-ic
Related forms
deictically, adverb
Examples from the web for deictic
We argue that children acquire a multi-dimensional system having deictic relations as one of the basic dimensions.
deictic devices can also indicate the personal stance or point of view of the narrator.
British Dictionary definitions for deictic
deictic
/ˈdaɪktɪk/
adjective
1.
(logic) proving by direct argument Compare elenctic