[Corpora-List] Deixis

[Marc FRYD]

'You lie' not a present tense? Surely, you jest.

Marc

Leo Schmitt wrote:
> I'm not sure I agree that 'you lie' should be interpreted as a simple 
> present. The phrase has entered colloquial language with a pretty 
> strong disbursement having the meaning of disagreement with a 
> particular statement. See 
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=you+lie
> My two cents.
>
> peace,
>
> Leo
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:46 AM, chris brew <brew.2 at osu.edu 
> <mailto:brew.2 at osu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     joe wilson's "you lie!", to me, is odd. if it is discourse deixis
>     then i think a fully competent native speaker unconstrained by
>     congressional rules would have said either "that is  a lie" or
>     "you are lying". the natural interpretation of "you lie!" is as a
>     claim that obama habitually lies. if wilson was doing his
>     "spontaneous outburst" after careful thought and preparation, then
>     the wording may have been quite deliberate, so as to avoid the
>     outright claim that what obama just said was a lie.
>
>     for the larger questions, see donna byron's work on deixis. in
>     natural texts and dialogs there are a lot of potential targets for
>     deixis, including many that are not easy to associate with
>     anything present in the surface form of the text. (my summary, not
>     donna's, read her work if you want the real scoop)
>
>     chris
>
>
>
>     On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:34 AM, <CRuehlemann at aol.com
>     <mailto:CRuehlemann at aol.com>> wrote:
>
>         Dear All
>          
>         I'd be grateful for pointers to corpus research on deictic
>         phenomena including any deictic category: person deixis (e.g.
>         personal pronouns), place deixis (reference to location, such
>         as /over there/), time deixis (like /yesterday/ and tense),
>         discourse deixis (reference to the discourse, such as
>         Joe Wilson's  "You lie!"), social deixis (reference to
>         social relationship and role), emotional - or empathetic
>         - deixis (indices of personal involvement).
>          
>         Any hints are greatly appreciated.
>          
>         Chris
>
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