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Cross-Linguistic Patterns in Pragmatics
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Which of the following is NOT a cross-linguistic pattern in pragmatics?
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Deixis
💡 Explanation:
Deixis is the use of language to refer to things in the immediate context, such as "this" and "that". While deixis is a universal feature of language, it does not vary significantly across languages in the way that politeness strategies, speech acts, and conversational implicature do.