: showing or pointing out directly
the words this, that, and those have a deictic function
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Then there are deictic or indexical gestures, which can happen either with or without vocal speech.
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Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 19 June 2024
Some are meant to point out objects, known as deictic gestures, and others are for conveying messages, called symbolic gestures.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
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Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 19 June 2024
Some are meant to point out objects, known as deictic gestures, and others are for conveying messages, called symbolic gestures.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
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“Deictic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deictic. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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