Usi della deissi in Internet Relay Chat

Depending on the IRC user’s behaviour, three kinds of deixis can be pointed out: esomedial deixis, when the user him/herself is the origo of the utterance (the most ‘traditional’, as it can be found in other forms of communication too); endomedial deixis, when the ‘digital identity’, labelled by the nickname, is the origo of the utterance (here the chat-room is the digital space where the IRCer’s new identity is moving); liminal deixis, when the origo of the utterance can refer to both the above mentioned starting points (ie.: in some verbs of movement). Focusing on personal pronouns, adverbs of place and verbs of movement, I underline their innovative uses and compare my results with Buhler’s Deixis am Phantasma, textual and analogical deixis.

A partire da questa tricotomia nel presente articolo sono stati investigati gli usi innovativi dei pronomi personali, degli avverbi di luogo e dei verbi di movimento. In conclusione la deissi delle IRC è confrontata con la Deixis am Phantasma, con la deissi testuale e con la deissi analogica.