Abstract
Depending on the IRC user’s behaviour, three kinds of deixis can be pointed out: esomedial deixis, when the user him/herself is the origo of the utterance (the most ‘traditional’, as it can be found in other forms of communication too); endomedial deixis, when the ‘digital identity’, labelled by the nickname, is the origo of the utterance (here the chat-room is the digital space where the IRCer’s new identity is moving); liminal deixis, when the origo of the utterance can refer to both the above mentioned starting points (ie.: in some verbs of movement). Focusing on personal pronouns, adverbs of place and verbs of movement, I underline their innovative uses and compare my results with Buhler’s Deixis am Phantasma, textual and analogical deixis.
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