deikticznoci

Deikticznoci is a term used in linguistics to denote deixis, the property of linguistic expressions whose interpretation depends on the context of utterance. Expressions that exhibit deikticznoci anchor reference to the speaker or addressee, to the time of speaking, or to the place of the discourse. Together with the deictic center, such expressions ground language in a particular moment and location.

Although the more common Polish form is deikticznosc ('deicticness'), deikticznoci appears in some cross-linguistic discussions as a variant or plural notion covering deixis phenomena across languages.

Categories of deikticznoci include personal deixis (I, you, we), demonstratives (this, that), spatial deixis (here, there, over there), and temporal deixis (now, then, soon). Some languages encode deixis with grammatical markers, while others rely on demonstratives, pronouns, or adverbs; in any case, the interpretation of these expressions depends on the deictic center—typically the speaker's point of view.

Examples: English phrases like "I am here now" combine personal, spatial, and temporal deixis; Polish equivalents such as "Ja idę tu teraz" show similar deixis; in discourse, shifts of deictic center can occur in narratives (deictic shift).

In linguistic analysis, deikticznoci serves as a framework for examining how meaning is anchored to context, how deixis interacts with tense and perspective, and how languages differ in marking deictic contrasts. It is relevant for fields such as translation, sociolinguistics, and language pedagogy.