Deictic Expressions in Femi Osofisan’s Another Raft

Abstract

This paper examines deitic expressions used by the characters in the play entitled Another Raft by Femi Osofisan. The study employed qualitative method of data analysis to analyse the deitic expressions used by the characters in the text. The result of the analysis reveals that characters in the text used person, place and time deixis while communicating with one another. Person deixis points to participants in speech events, place deixis points to the places where actions are taken while time deixis points to different times of actions.