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    Deixis
    Deixis
    Deixis
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    Deixis

    By Emile Raymond

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmile Raymond
    Release dateJan 18, 2015
    ISBN9781310655197
    Deixis
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    Emile Raymond

    Emile Raymond is the author of the highly unclaimed novel, Shadowing Thunder. As a former communications professional working at the highest executive level, Raymond has published business articles and interviews in popular magazines and journals, brochures and marketing materials, non-fiction pieces for magazines, and has ghost-written a section of an academic text. Emile has lived and worked in six countries, and while an active communications advisor visited more than forty. With an MA in Anthropology, he began his professional career in academics, teaching branches of Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology, in the USA, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

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      Deixis - Emile Raymond

      DEIXIS

      Emile Raymond

      Copyright 2005 by Emile Raymond

      Smashwords Edition

      In linguistics deixis refers to the necessity of context for understanding the reference of certain words and phrases. That is to say, unless one knows who's saying I, or who's being referred to with you, or where's being referred to with there or here, none of those words have any real meaning. In that sense one has to have been there to really understand what was going on.

      For me Deixis is the name of the source of my first very broken heart, including all the years of psychological trauma that would ensue, and all the dreams of a lost love that would fill occasional nights over the years.

      Following my first wife's departure twenty years after Deixis, and during the suffering (misery, sorrow, agony) of recovery, when my heart was more sensitive than at any other time in my life, I would reflect upon certain failures of mine over the years to have given love, specific events that I wished I could repeat. One

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