Abstract
This paper aims at examining the properties of the rhetoric functions and empathetic shift between Arabic and Italian. Our target is to describe a set of related linguistic and rhetoric functions in the field of social and discourse deixis across the two languages. The structure and function of both social and discourse deixis have been studied to highlight their influence on the acquisition of empathetic shift in both languages. In addition, this study shows that deictic forms in Arabic are more pragmatically conditioned than in Italian. As for the empathetic shift, it has been found that Arabic is abundant with the means through which the empathetic shift is carried out. Arabic seems to be very rich in the fields of rhetoric and empathetic shift.
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