deixis
/ˈdaɪksɪs/
words whose meaning depends on context (I, here, now, this)
deixis in a sentence
“Deictic expressions like 'tomorrow' shift meaning with each utterance.”
Origin of deixis
Greek deixis (pointing, reference)
Related Words
anaphora
using a word to refer back to something mentioned earlier
polysemy
a single word having multiple related meanings
disambiguation
resolving which meaning is intended when multiple are possible
compositionality
the meaning of a whole derived from its parts and their arrangement
lexicon
the vocabulary of a language; a mental dictionary of words
phoneme
the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes meaning