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La dixi és normalment concebuda, des del punt de vista lingüístic, com un fenomen que mostra la relació entre els trets estructurals del llenguatge i el context específic de comunicació. Hi ha mecanismes no verbals que també actuen com a recursos díctics en moltes situacions de la llengua oral. És per aquesta raó que calen estudis que analitzin diferents aspectes de la combinació d’aquests diferents mecanismes. L’objectiu d’aquesta proposta és analitzar la relació entre la verbalització dels díctics d’espai trobats en els textos instructius del projecte PRAGMAESTIL i els elements no verbals que els acompanyen. Concretament, s’observarà en primer lloc si els díctics van acompanyats de gestos o no; en segon lloc, quant als casos amb correspondència no verbal, s’establirà la relació que hi ha entre aquesta part no verbal i la part verbal d’aquests díctics pel que fa al temps d’execució de cada una d’elles; per últim, s’analitzarà si hi ha diferències en funció de la llengua de producció del text (L1, L2 o L3).

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Abstract: This paper deals with non-situational demonstratives as text-deictic units and discusses the degree of activation or cognitive status of their referents under the scope of Gundel, Hedberg & Zacharski’s (1993) Givenness Hierarchy combined with Centering Theory.In order to determine the cognitive status of the referents of the demonstratives, a narrative corpus consisting of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and two translations of Barrie’s text into Catalan and Spanish is analyzed. Firstly, the situational or non-situational natures of the demonstratives this/these/thus and that/those, and their counterparts in the translations, are determined. Secondly, the cognitive status of the referents of the non-situational demonstratives is discussed.The analyses show that the demonstratives referring to ‘in focus’ entities are frequent. Moreover, there is no one-to-one correspondence among the demonstratives in the source and the target texts. Both results point to changes in the cognitive status of some referents in the process of translation. These results also lead to conclude that some discourse non-identificational constraints should be taken into account when facing the analysis of demonstratives.Key words: demonstratives, reference, deixis, anaphora, cognitive status.

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This article presents some of the results from a broader research study of management styles within the Catalan university world. Two management styles are defined (the collegial and the managerial) and a relationship is established between some of the characteristics of these styles, some discursive features and the gender of the managers. Specifically, an analysis is made of the linguistic markers pertaining to the deictic modality in the discourse that constructs the identity of the analysed individuals. The markers of the deictic modality also make it possible to identity certain characteristic traits of men and women. Methodologically speaking, it could be said that the analysis of the indicators of a deictic-type discourse, and its linguistic markers, is a highly productive resource when it comes to evaluating the construction of the managers’ selfrepresentation and, therefore, of the way they see themselves in this role.