Indicator (linguistics)
The term indicator is used in various contexts in linguistics.
Indicator in the sense of deictic expression
On the one hand, indicators are expressions like me , here , this , today , the meaning of which depends on the context of the utterance.
The expression indicator is then synonymous with the expressions:
- deictic expression
- indexical expression ( Bar-Hillel )
- shifters (Reichenbach)
- egocentric particulars (Russell).
More details can be found under deictic expression .
In a similar, but somewhat narrower sense, Morris used the term identifier . Morris signs denoting space-time points ("Lokata").
Indicator in the sense of illocutive indicator (Searle)
The term indicator is also used in speech act theory in the phrase illocutive indicator .
At Searle, it describes all linguistic means. which determine the illocutionary force . This includes language-dependent intonation, mode, punctuation, word and sentence structure, modal verbs, etc.
Sometimes it is understood - more narrowly - only to mean a "particle word or short phrase with the function of disambiguating an otherwise ambiguous sentence".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hadumod Bußmann (Ed.): Lexicon of Linguistics. 3rd updated and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-520-45203-0 (deictic expression).
- ^ Helmut Glück (ed.), With the assistance of Friederike Schmöe : Metzler Lexikon Sprach. 3rd, revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-476-02056-8 (identifier).
- ↑ In detail Hadumod Bußmann (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. 3rd updated and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-520-45203-0 (Illocution).
- ↑ Ulrich, Linguistische Grundbegriffe, 5th ed. (2002) / illokutiver indicator