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ELEMENTI DEITTICI NEL DISCORSO RELIGIOSO ITALIANO
Deictic Elements in Italian Religious Discourse

Author(s): Mirela Aioane
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: deictic; homily; religious discourse

Summary/Abstract: The article presents deictic, personal, spatial, temporal and descriptive elements in Catholic religious discourse. The Homily prepared by Pope Francis on Palm Sunday is examined, with a focus on personal deixis, the use of personal, demonstrative, possessive pronouns in the Pope’s discourse, which encode the participants’ role in the verbal interaction, along with a general linguistic analysis.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 13-19
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Italian