Friday, October 15, 2010

Distancing with Deixis!

Yesterday's "Classic Peanuts" in the print (not on-line) Washington Post had a nice example of deictic distancing, as Snoopy's pronoun choice could lead you to believe that Andy and Olaf aren't his brothers... (which they are)

Andy and Olaf set off to find their brother

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