Receiving Time
Definition:
Receiving time is the time at which an addressee hears or reads a message.
This time may be the deictic center for expressions of time deixis.
Examples:
- In the following utterance, the time referred to by today is the receiving time:
- This programme was recorded last Wednesday, April 1st, to be relayed today.
See Also:
Source:
54, 62, 73–74
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.