Grammatical person, in linguistics, is deictic reference to a participant in an event ; such as the speaker, the addressee, or others.

the deictic center is simply the person at the time and place of speaking.

For examples, consider the traditional deictic categories of person, place, and time.

The terms `` renewal '' and `` refreshed '', which often come up in aesthetic discussion, seem partly to derive their import from the `` renewal '' of purpose and a `` refreshed '' sense of significance a person may receive from poetry, drama, and fiction.

And in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one person in the house who knew the terms of her marriage contract.

The Spanish words estadounidense ( United States person ), yanqui ( Yankee ), and gringo are Spanish terms denoting U. S. things and persons.

It is important to note that these are " politically correct " terms and that in normal parlance, the adjective " American " and its direct cognates are almost always used unless the context does not render the nationality of the person clear.

The bicycle is the most efficient human-powered means of transportation in terms of energy a person must expend to travel a given distance.

These are often the same person, and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.

Similarly, those participants who are recipients of the activities are typically known as bottoms, those who are controlled by their partners as submissives, and those who receive pain as masochists ; again, these are frequently the same person and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.

A person who creates software is called a programmer, software engineer, software developer, or " code monkey ", terms that all have a similar meaning.

" A. D .," and less commonly, " C. E .," are also occasionally seen, but the typical Japanese person would not know about the religious connotations or lack of in these terms.

This view is forwarded by, for example, positivist interpreters, who saw Hume as suggesting that terms such as " self ", " person ", or " mind " referred to collections of " sense-contents ".

His strategy mirrors his teacher Ryle's approach of redefining first person phenomena in third person terms, and denying the coherence of the concepts which this approach struggles with.

A lord was in broad terms a noble who held land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and the land was known as a fief.

Although the described person may reside on completely flat terrain, hillbilly is substituted in place of more disparaging terms, such as white trash.

Following Lasswell he states that “ a person identifies himself with a group when, in making a decision, he evaluates the several alternatives of choice in terms of their consequences for the specified group ”.

The terms reasonable and prudent person, due care and due diligence have been used in the fields of Finance, Securities, and Law for many years.

In every day terms, the imam for Sunni Muslims is the one who leads Islamic formal ( Fard ) prayers, even in locations besides the mosque, whenever prayers are done in a group of two or more with one person leading ( imam ) and the others follow by copying his ritual actions of worship.

Snorri ’ s own usage, however, seems to fit the looser sense: “ Snorri uses the term " kenning " to refer to a structural device, whereby a person or object is indicated by a periphrastic description containing two or more terms ( which can be a noun with one or more dependent genitives or a compound noun or a combination of these two structures )” ( Faulkes ( 1998 a ), p. xxxiv ).

A sex drive can be viewed in terms of a general desire for sex or in terms of desire for sex with a particular person.

In Ahmadiyya, the terms " Messiah " and " Mahdi " are synonymous terms for one and the same person.

Some quatrains cover these disasters in overall terms ; others concern a single person or small group of people.

The Arabic name for Nazareth is an-Nāṣira, and Jesus (, Yasū ` or, ` Īsā ) is also called an-Nāṣirī, reflecting the Arab tradition of according people a nisba, a name denoting from whence a person comes in either geographical or tribal terms.

In less formal terms, a polymath ( or polymathic person ) may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

Although today's trucks are as fast as passenger cars, a truck driver has to be a sensible person and guard against hogging the road.

For every person on Taiwan, there are sixty in Mainland China.

These provisions are designed to reflect the differences in wealth and population among the States, with the objective that a vocationally handicapped person have access to needed services regardless of whether he resides in a State with a low or high per capita income or a sparsely or thickly populated State.

If you are unable to sign the request, because of illness or other good cause, another person who stands in close personal or business relationship to you may sign the request on your behalf, stating the reason why you are unable to sign.

One species is restricted to statements which are neither explicit nor precise regarding a particular person, place, time or thing.

According to a number of studies, the important predictors are the nature and management of the client's anxiety as well as the accessibility of the helping person.

Therefore, if the sense of touch is functioning normally and there is a complete absence of spatial awareness in a psychically-blind person when the eyes are closed and an object is handled, the conclusion seems unavoidable that touch by itself cannot focus and take possession of the third-dimensionality of things and that actual sight or visual representations are necessary.

For example, if you are a reasonably well-adjusted person, there are certain ways that are reasonable and appropriate for addressing your mother.

It is very important indeed, in the field of extra-sensory perception and its relation to the survival hypothesis, to know whether the statements are actually only those which any intuitive person might venture and an eager sitter attach to himself.

In denying motions for dismissal, Judge Powell stated that mass trials have been upheld as proper in other courts and that `` a person may join a conspiracy without knowing who all of the conspirators are ''.

Research has found that people are most likely to help if they recognize that a person is in need and feel personal responsibility for reducing the person's distress.

If in the first person, the document's component parts are:

The first three of these prizes are awarded for eminence in physical science, in chemistry and in medical science or physiology ; the fourth is for literary work " in an ideal direction " and the fifth prize is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses.

Although panic attacks are not experienced by every person who has anxiety, they are a common symptom.

In its pathological form, spiritual anxiety may tend to " drive the person toward the creation of certitude in systems of meaning which are supported by tradition and authority " even though such " undoubted certitude is not built on the rock of reality ".

Some meals are communal, such as fondue, where a pot is set in the middle of the table for each person to dip into.

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.