Deixase
Deixase is a term that appears only rarely in linguistic discussions and is not widely adopted as a standard label in the field. In the limited contexts where it has been used, deixase refers to a hypothetical component or process that identifies and resolves deictic reference in discourse, effectively acting as an element that locates words such as this, that, here, and now relative to a speaker or reference context. The term is not part of the formal taxonomies of deixis and is often described as speculative or experimental.
Etymology and interpretation are informal. The form deixase suggests a blend of deixis, the established concept
In usage, deixase is typically mentioned in theoretical or methodological discussions about how deictic anchoring might
Because deixase is not a widely recognized term, most scholarly work on deictic expressions continues to use