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Deixis is reference by means of an expression whose interpretation is relative to the (usually) exralinguistic context of the utterance such as who is speaking, the time or place of speaking the gestures of the speaker and the current location in the discourse .(Loos et.al,2004:1) The present study aims at investigating one type of person deixis (personal pronouns) in two types of texts, literary and scientific. It falls into two parts, the first one is theoretical which presents a theoretical survey concerning personal pronouns. The second part is practical that gives an account about the frequency, distributions and some special uses of personal pronouns in the analysed texts. The model adopted for the analysis is Quirk et al (1985). The data selected for the analysis consists of six texts, four of which are scientific and the others are literary. The analysis of the texts has revealed that frequency of personal pronouns is higher in literary texts than in scientific ones. In addition to that in literary texts the author can deviate the norm of writing and uses personal pronouns in a way that seems ungrammatical in order to enrich his literary work.
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