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Volker Müller

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Volker Müller is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deixis. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1 citations.

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Die Deixis im Theater des Absurden

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the common characteristic of the "Theatre of the Absurd", which can be seen in the presentation of concrete 'poetic images' of the search for orientation, from a linguistic point of view by showing that the playwrights radically undermine the determinability of their characters' origo, defined by K. Buhler as the centre of "subjective linguistic orientation", and that therefore deictics lose their role of establishing direct relations between the speaker's origo and the dramatic context and thus their crucial function of defining the latter for the