empathetic deixis comments on june 15 i posted a query about empathetic deixis . so far i ' ve received several suggestions and comments whose summary i 'd like to share with you and at the same time thank the people who helped . the first to write back was nik gisborne of cambridge ( nsg22 @ cus . cam . ac . uk ) who referred me to sylvia adamson 's treatment of empathetic narrative where she treats subjectivity as a species of deixis ( susan wright and dieter stein , eds . _ subjectivity and subjectivisation _ cambridge university press , 1995 . dan loehr of georgetown university ( loehrd @ gsun . acc . georgetown . edu ) referred me to buehler 's _ theory of language _ ( sprachtheorie ) , 1934 translated by d . goodwin , john benjamin , 1990 ; fillmore , c . _ santa cruz lectures on deixis , indiana university lingusitics club , 1975 ; lyons , john , _ deixis as the source of reference _ , laut , trier , 1973 ; both lyons ' books intro to theoretical linguistics and semantics , vol . 2 ; lyons , j . , " deixis and anaphora " in t . myers , ed . _ the development of conversation and discourse _ , edinburgh university press , 1979 . lynne hewitt ( leh5 @ psu . edu ) , and a little later , william rapaport ( rapaport @ cs . buffalo . edu ) both pointed out that the texts in duchan , j . , bruder , g $ hewitt , l . ( eds . ) _ deixis in narrative : a cognitive science perspective _ , hillsdale , nj , lawrence earlbaum , 1995 should be taken a look at . in her chapter " reduced anaphor in subjective contexts " lynne analyzes the use of extended stretches of pronominalization for purpose of indicating subjective contexts in popular fiction . there are also chapters on unspeakable sentences ( ann banfield ) , empathy in syntax ( kuno ) , subjective contexts in japanese ( kuroda ) . anne reboul ( anne . reboul @ loria . fr ) wrote saying that she 'd written several papers on the topic , mainly centered on personal pronouns and suggested consulting casta * neda 's work . lynne hewitt added that buehler 's article translated into english as " the deicitic field of language and deictic words " ( r . jarvella $ w . klein , _ speech , place and action : studies in deixis and related topics , pp . 9-30 , wiley ) could be useful , as well as the books by jerome bruner _ actual minds , possible worlds _ , harvard university press , 1986 , and kaete hamburger , die logik der dichtung , ernst kleist verlag , 1957 tr . into english as _ the logic of literature _ , indiana university press , 1973 . finally i had marcus maia ( maia @ acd . ufrj . br ) suggesting lyons ' _ semantics _ ( i presume vol . 2 ) . sincere thanks to all . djordje vidanovic , university of nis .