The meaning of deixis in Harold Pinter's the birthday party : a pragmatic study

Abstract EN

Sometimes, we face difficulty in understanding what the speaker says, about whom, when, and where.

Here, context is important to understand the speaker's meaning.

Deixis is a technical term for one of the most basic things we do with utterances.

Deixis is a form of referring that is tied to the speaker's context.

This study involves two parts: a theoretical background and a practical part.

The theoretical background consists of a number of sections illustrating the concept of deixis and the Theatre of the rd.

The practical part involves the analysis of the meaning of deictic expressions found in an rdist work which is Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party and a discussion of the data analysis.