The article focuses on the three-term model of a communicative situation and its role in the restructuring of the system of deictic pronouns in the Danish language. It is argued that in addition to binary oppositions that indicate close (denne, dette, disse) or remote (den, det, de) location of an object in physical space modern Danish develops a three-term opposition of analytical demonstrative pronouns (complex demonstratives), reflecting the interaction between the three participants in a communicative act: the speaker, the listener and the external world. The study of analytical demonstrative pronouns in the Corpus of Modern Danish (Korpus DK) shows that complex demonstratives that combine two indicators of proximal deixis (denne her, dette her, disse her) are used as subjective markers of the 1st person, signaling that the deictic object intrudes into the speaker's personal space. Complex demonstratives that combine indicators of proximal and distal deixis (den her, det her, de her) are used as cohortatives, signaling the compatibility of perception of the deictic object by the addresser and the addressee. Complex demonstratives that combine indicators of the distal deixis (den der, det der, de der) serve as signals of a subjectively withdrawn or alienated object. Thus, the paradigm of complex demonstratives in the Danish language based on the idea of three “spatial belts” is established: the personal space of the speaker (1st person), the common space of communication shared with the addressee (2nd person) and the external space into which the speaker mentally remotes reproved or alienated deictic objects (3rd person).