The Interpretation of Deixis in Cognitive Linguistics: A Literature Review

This paper studied deixis in cognitive linguistics, and mainly introduced three types of deixis: spatio-temporal; knowledge-related; empathy. On the basis, literature on this topic recent years was reviewed relying China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) Web Science. The findings are: represented by "这" "那" "this" "that" are related to distance psychological space rather than only physical space; emerging study like children's combination with sign language has been developing gradually. More cross-field or other empirical studies will attract more researchers conduct future.