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Linguistic indicators of point of view
Our answer for task C
'These' is a proximal deictic (a demonstrative pronoun).
So 'these days' is apparently proximal both for the woman and us, and
we thus share to some degree her point of view. You may well feel a little
uneasy as you read this sentence from the story. This is because you are
being positioned close to this character through the use of given information
and time deixis, which will make you want to sympathise with her. But
you may not be sympathetic to her attitudes. This involves unravelling
what 'the usual sort of news' is and how the news of a dangerous animal
loose nearby could be preferable. We will come back to this example later
on this page (in the section on 'Value-laden expression - attitudinal
and ideological viewpoint markers').
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