A Study on the Comparision of Deictic and Anaphoric Usages

This essay has discussed the in English.The in English is divided into five categories:person deixis,time deixis,place deixis,discourse and social deixis.It has also illustrated the concrete usage of the deixis,especially the gestural usage,symbolic usage,anaphoric usage and non-anaphoric usage.Deixis is one of the important tasks in the pragmatic research.It is because the linguistic phenomenon deixis exists in language that it has good reasons to show the close relations between language and the environment in which language is used.