?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Pointing+and+Morality+in+Chicago&rft.creator=McNeill%2C+David&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=The+signature+form+of+abstract+deixis+is+the+classic+pointing+G-hand+aimed+at+absolutely+nothing.+This+gesture+is+extremely+widespread+and+frequent+in+conversational+discourse.%5B2%5D+A+speaker+says+%22and+there+was+%5Bthis+guy%5D%22%2C+and+flexes+an+index+finger+at+a+certain+locus%2C+although+there+is+no+person+there.+In+effect%2C+the+gesture+%60creates'+a+reference%2C+in+this+case+an+imaginary+person+identified+as+%22this+guy%22.+What+I+am+terming+%60abstract+deixis'+is%2C+according+to+B%C3%BChler+(1982)%2C+concrete+deixis+that+has+been+transposed+to+the+realm+of+imaginary+referents.+His+term+for+this+process+was+deixis+at+phantasma.+As+in+all+cases+of+pointing%2C+abstract+deixis+entails+a+coordinate+center%2C+or+origo%2C+and+an+indicated+line+connecting+this+center+to+a+locus+(the+G-hand+is+an+iconic+sign+of+this+line).+A+%60target'+then+is+created+at+this+locus+that+may+be+used+for+later+anaphoric+references.+The+creative+use+of+pointing+in+abstract+deixis+fleshes+out+the+deictic+paradigm+with+new+meanings+for+the+target+and+origo+cross-hairs.+Another+component+of+pointing+is+the+deictic+field+or+ground+over+which+the+pointing+act+is+understood+to+extend.+In+the+concrete+case%2C+the+deictic+field+is+spatial+and+ranges+from+the+immediate+perceptual+present+to+vast+regions+such+as+the+entire+Yucatan+peninsula+that+Haviland+(in+press)+describes+in+acts+of+pointing+to+distant+locales.+In+the+abstract+case%2C+the+ground+takes+on+non-spatial+meanings.+The+components+of+deixis+are+all+part+of+the+referential+creation+of+abstract+pointing%2C+and+can+be+analyzed+as+parameters+set+by+the+speaker+for+the+context.+Creative+deictic+use+is+prominent+in+the+example+that+I+will+now+present.&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F195%2F1%2FMcNeill_Pointing.html&rft.identifier=++McNeill%2C+David++(1998)+Pointing+and+Morality+in+Chicago.++%5BPreprint%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F195%2F