Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022: 168):
In PARALINGUISTIC DEIXIS the selection of [virtual] is realised through an unresolved vector, that is, one that does not direct a viewer’s gaze to a materially present phenomenon (Figure 6.3). Here a primary distinction in the recoverability of phenomena is made between [virtual:semiosis] and [virtual:location].
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[1] To be clear, a gesture that does not direct a viewer's gaze is not deictic, since nothing is related to the here-&-now of the gesturer, and not reference, since it does not signal where an identity is recoverable. It will be seen that of the authors' two examples, the gesture in the first is not deictic, and the gesture in the second is not "unresolved".
[2] To be clear, the features 'semiosis' and 'location' distinguish referents. They do not distinguish the means of referring to them.
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